Testing

[Yohaï-Eliel Berreby]

In a compiler, correctness is absolutely critical. Therefore, we want a very good and comprehensive test suite.

A good way to test the correctness of the compiler would be to piggyback on the official Go compiler's test suite:

• build the official Go compiler with rgo
• run its test suite, ensuring all tests pass

If we're able to build a 711k SLOC[1] project without panicking and have all its tests pass, we can be reasonably confident that rgo is working.

We would probably have a git submodule of golang/go, updated once a month or so to make sure our build doesn't unexpectedly fail because of a problem in Go's tests.

[1]: number of lines of Go code reported by $ cloc src at the root of the Go repository at the time of writing.