In article <darin-ya02408000R2502971131220001@news> darin@goonsquad.spies.com (Darin Adler) writes:
>James Kanze <james-albert.kanze@vx.cit.alcatel.fr> wrote:
>> Werner@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Andreas Werner) writes:
>> > Is there a test-suite for STL?
>>
>> There's not even a complete definition, so how could you implement a
>> test suite.

This is true, however, suite vendors have always released something
with moving targets.

>Check out http://www.plumhall.com/suites.html.

There's also DinkumWare, Modena, and probably some other suites
for STL too, if not released, at least in progress.

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James Kanze <james-albert.kanze@vx.cit.alcatel.fr> wrote:
> Werner@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Andreas Werner) writes:
> > Is there a test-suite for STL?
>
> There's not even a complete definition, so how could you implement a
> test suite.

Check out http://www.plumhall.com/suites.html.

Here's a quote from that page:

"LibSuite++TM: The Plum Hall Validation Suite for The Draft Standard C++
Library tests the more traditional components of your C++ library, like
language support and iostreams classes, as well as the more recent
additions, like Hewlett Packard's Standard Template Library (STL)."

Darin
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On 18 Feb 1997 10:09:39 PST, Werner@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Andreas Werner) wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>it may be a FAQ, but I haven't found one:
>
>Is there a test-suite for STL? I would like to REALLY test
>the compatibility of some C++-Compilers HP/SGI/IBM/Sun/Cray
>to STL before I really start using it.

Try Dinkum software. They may have something like this. The
way I read their home page they have one. No idea if it is for
common useage though...

>
>If not, is there a public-domain code that makes extensive
>use of STL, so one could try to compile it in order to find
>problems ?
>
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Werner@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Andreas Werner) writes:

|>  Is there a test-suite for STL?

There's not even a complete definition, so how could you implement a
test suite.  (To test exception safety, for example, I instantiate
templates over a class which counts constructors and destructors, and
which can trigger an exception at precise moments, e.g.: the third call
to the constructor.  To test a template for exception safety, however,
you first have to define what it should support.)

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James Kanze <james-albert.kanze@vx.cit.alcatel.fr> wrote:
>Werner@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE (Andreas Werner) writes:
>|>  Is there a test-suite for STL?
>
>There's not even a complete definition, so how could you implement a
>test suite.  (To test exception safety, for example, I instantiate
>templates over a class which counts constructors and destructors, and
>which can trigger an exception at precise moments, e.g.: the third call
>to the constructor.  To test a template for exception safety, however,
>you first have to define what it should support.)

If you mean you're testing STL for exception safety, is there really any
point at the moment?  Container behaviour in the presence of exceptions is
generally undefined... for example, it's not guaranteed that a container
(e.g., a vector<T>) will even be destructible if a T operation throws.

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Hi there,

it may be a FAQ, but I haven't found one:

Is there a test-suite for STL? I would like to REALLY test
the compatibility of some C++-Compilers HP/SGI/IBM/Sun/Cray
to STL before I really start using it.

If not, is there a public-domain code that makes extensive
use of STL, so one could try to compile it in order to find
problems ?

Andreas
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>>>>> Andreas Werner <Werner@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> writes:

> Is there a test-suite for STL? I would like to REALLY test
> the compatibility of some C++-Compilers HP/SGI/IBM/Sun/Cray
> to STL before I really start using it.

> If not, is there a public-domain code that makes extensive
> use of STL, so one could try to compile it in order to find
> problems ?

There are the ObjectSpace STL examples, available from

  http://www.objectspace.com/Products/cpp_libraries/stltk/examples.html

And, adjusted to use the SGI STL implementation:

  ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/g++/stl-examples.zip
  ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/g++/stl-examples.tar.gz

Jason
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