[mercury-users] Exception file......

[Fergus Henderson]

On 16-Oct-2002, Noel  Pinto <cool4life at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >There are some example uses of most of the exception handling 
> >routines
> >in the files in the directory hard_coded/exceptions in the 
> >Mercury test
> >suite (the mercury-tests distribution).
> 
> There are two types of files, I mean they have '.m' and '.exp' 
> extensions. When I compile '.m' files with or without '.exp' files 
> in the same folder, the output is the same. What is the use of 
> '.exp' files??

As it says in tests/README:

 | Unless otherwise stated, the tests in each directory compile
 | the test programs and compare their output against hand-coded
 | `.exp' (or `.exp2', `.exp3', etc) files.

In other words, the ".exp" files each contain the expected output
for their corresponding test case.

> >There are some example uses of try_io in the sources for the 
> >Mercury compiler.
> >Just grep for it.
> >
> >That is, use the Unix (and cygwin) command `grep', e.g.
> >	grep -n try_io compiler/*.m
> This command does not work for me. It gives me the following 
> error...
> grep: compiler/*.m: No such file or directory

You need to be in the right directory before you execute this command.

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