tools/dev/ops_not_tested.pl: Can it be removed?

[Will Coleda]

On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:04 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
> In the course of working on http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/677, I had
> occasion to check the function and current status of various Perl 5 programs
> in 'tools/dev'.  'ops_not_tested.pl' was one I had never noticed before.
>  Growing out of an IRC conversation between Leo and toor,
> 'ops_not_tested.pl' was contributed in September 2006 by Ruben Fonseca and
> was intended to identify opcodes not used or tested.
>
> Test coverage++!
>
> There's only one problem:  The program relies on a build structure we have
> since jettisoned:
>
>  $> perl tools/dev/ops_not_tested.pl
>  Can't locate Parrot/Op.pm in @INC
>
> I suspect this module went away when 'ops2c' was converted from Perl 5 to
> NQP.
>
> Could anyone who was involved with that overhaul of 'ops2c' take a look at
> this program and see whether it could be brought up-to-date and thereby
> provide us with a useful tool for measuring test coverage of opcodes?

I presume the C level coverage is already handled by our "make cover"
target. NotFound?

> Thank you very much.
>
> kid51
>
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Will "Coke" Coleda