Re: Test system for the Widl compiler

[Zebediah Figura]

On 6/15/22 13:24, Bernhard Kölbl wrote:
> > We already have tests for typelibs and marshalling, in oleaut32:typelib
> > and oleaut32:tmarshal respectively. I see no reason that's not
> > sufficient already.
> >
> > As far as headers are concerned, we could probably take a similar
> > approach in some ways. I don't know what exactly needs testing, but we
> > could do things like
> >
> > ok(offsetof(mystruct.field) == 16,
> >           "wrong offset %u\n", offsetof(mystruct.field));
> >
> > or (for a compile-time assertion)
> >
> > extern void test(ITestInterface *obj)
> > {
> >       HRESULT (*myfunc)(type1 arg1, type2 *arg2, ...);
> >   myfunc = obj->lpVtbl->myfunc;
> >
> > }
>
> This  won't work for some WinRT features like namespaces and some attributes.

What needs testing there? Is there anything to do aside from validating 
that a given IDL compiles? That too doesn't seem like it'd require any 
extra test infrastructure.