From b22100504c458f4f0c1e63cbf4e81d69ac022037 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Francois Gouget Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:34:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explain why conformance tests are useful for ports too. --- documentation/testing.sgml | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/testing.sgml b/documentation/testing.sgml index 052ae7c7cda..72addae1106 100644 --- a/documentation/testing.sgml +++ b/documentation/testing.sgml @@ -79,10 +79,13 @@ - FIXME: Ports to new architectures involve New ports involve modifying core parts of Wine: - synchronization, exception handling, thread management, etc. - After such modifications extensive testing is necessary to - make sure the changes did not To check the correctness of new ports. + Conformance tests will also come in handy when testing Wine on + new (or not as widely used) architectures such as FreeBSD, + Solaris x86 or even non-x86 systems. Even when the port does + not involve any significant change in the thread management, + exception handling or other low-level aspects of Wine, new + architectures can expose subtle bugs that can be hard to + diagnose when debugging regular (complex) applications.