Re: How to compile hashlib.c for testing?

[Chet Ramey]

On 12/29/18 5:44 PM, Peng Yu wrote:
>> That code hasn't really changed in almost twenty years. All the testing
>> was done long ago.
> 
> Do you keep all the testing code in the bash repository? 

Yes. The test suite exists in the tests subdirectory.

> Given the fugal
> testing code that is in the bash source, it is doesn't seem that the
> current testing code can cover all the branches of the source code. 

(That's not a word.)

The current testing code, the last time I ran the test suite through
gcov, gives pretty good coverage of the non-interactive features. For
instance, it covers about 86% of subst.c, which is the word expansion
code, among other things.

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