Memory Pool System Product Tools
| author | Richard Brooksby |
| confidentiality | public |
| copyright | See C. Copyright and License |
| date | 2002-06-18 |
| organization | Ravenbrook Limited |
| revision | //info.ravenbrook.com/project/mps/master/tool/index.rst#9 |
1. Introduction
This document lists the tools which have been written to develop the Memory Pool System product.
This document will be updated as new tools are created.
The readership of this document is anyone developing or extending the product sources.
This document is not confidential.
2. Tools
| branch | Make a version or development branch. |
| gcovfmt | Formats the output of the gcov coverage tool into a summary table. |
| noaslr.c | Run a program on macOS with address space layout randomization (ASLR) disabled. |
| p4-bisect | Find, by binary search, the Perforce change that introduced a feature or bug. |
| release | Make a product release. |
| testaslr.c | Print addresses from different parts of address space in order to detect whether address space layout randomization (ASLR) is in force. |
| testcases.txt | MPS test case database. |
| testcoverage | Instrument the test suite for coverage, run it, and output a coverage report. |
| testopendylan | Download the latest version of Open Dylan and build it against the MPS sources. |
| testrun.bat | Test case runner on Windows. |
| testrun.sh | Test case runner on Unix. |
A. References
B. Document History
| 2002-06-18 | RB | Created based on P4DTI document. |
| 2005-09-30 | RHSK | Added test-runner.py. |
| 2013-05-24 | GDR | Added gcovfmt.py and testrun.sh. test-runner.py is no longer used. |
| 2014-01-13 | GDR | Converted to reStructuredText. Added testrun.bat. |
| 2014-03-22 | GDR | Add branch, release, testcoverage, and testopendylan. |
C. Copyright and License
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