[m-dev.] Running the test suite under IL

[Eric Taucher]

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> From: owner-mercury-developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au [mailto:owner-mercury-
> developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au] On Behalf Of Jonathan Morgan
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 3:45 AM
> To: mercury-developers at csse.unimelb.edu.au
> Subject: [m-dev.] Running the test suite under IL
> 
> I have been running the test suite using the IL backend, and have
> encountered several general classes of problems:
> * Many test case outputs differ only in line ending (LF vs. CRLF).
> How is this supposed to be handled?

Would it be possible to set it based on the target system?

> * Quite a few tests throw an ExecutionEngineException (according to
> Microsoft, "The exception that is thrown when there is an internal
> error in the execution engine of the common language runtime.")
> * A few tests have problems with dummy variables.
> * A few tests have problems with loading foreign types.
> 
> I haven't particularly looked into any of these, so I can't tell what
> needs changing.
> 
> Jon
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