[SLOF] [PATCH 4/4] Add testprograms

Alexey Kardashevskiy aik at ozlabs.ru
Wed Jul 7 17:47:39 AEST 2021



On 07/07/2021 07:32, Stefan Berger wrote:
> 
> On 7/1/21 12:11 AM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 30/06/2021 22:26, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>>
>>> On 6/29/21 11:10 PM, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
>>>> What does this actually test? It runs sha384/etc but it is not 
>>>> comparing the outcome with known good values or anything like this.
>>>>
>>> I visually compared the results against the expected results from 
>>> test vectors or results from  command line output of echo -n "..." | 
>>> sha512sum for example.
>>
>> if would make more sense if you hardcoded those outputs to the test 
>> and compared, then the next reader won't have questions and will know 
>> exactly what it tests.
>>
> 
> So you really want to keep these test cases then? If so, can we use glib 
> to make tings a bit easier for invoking external programs and getting 
> results back?

I want to replace printing the hashes in main() with memcmp() to what 
external program would produce for the same sequence. I definitely do 
not want neither new external programs to run from the test nor glib in 
SLOF.



-- 
Alexey


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