[perl #39939] [TODO] exhaustively test new {set, get}*global and get*namespace opcodes

Christoph Otto via RT parrotbug-followup at parrotcode.org
Tue Apr 28 21:21:52 UTC 2009


On Sat Apr 18 00:22:50 2009, cotto wrote:
> On Mon Mar 17 19:19:22 2008, jkeen at verizon.net wrote:
> > This ticket hasn't been touched in going on two years, but it was
> > phrased very generally.
> > 
> > Can anyone provide a description of the opcodes that would need testing
> > and/or how far we've gotten?
> > 
> > Thank you very much.
> > 
> > kid51
> 
> After looking at some reasonably recent (r37626) test coverage results,
> it looks like the following versions of the relevant opcodes in
> src/ops/var.ops do *not* have test coverage:
> get_hll_namespace(out PMC)
> get_root_global(out PMC, in STR)
> set_root_global(in STR, invar PMC)
> 
> However, it looks like the functions that are called by these opcodes
> have adequate test coverage and will behave unsurprisingly if they're
> ever used.  I propose marking this ticket resolved.

Hearing no objections (or anything at all), I'm resolving this ticket.


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