To run this test, set the CEM variable to the compilation command, and the RUN variable to the run command (name of the interpreter or empty). For instance: CEM=acc -mem24; export CEM RUN=em; export RUN Then type: sh run > out 2>&1 & The test are subdivided into several directories. Only the directory ctgen contains more than one program, but it is an exception anyhow. All other directories contain one program, say test.c. It is translated with a file test.cem as result. This test is run, producing output on test.cem.r. The 'expected' output is distributed on files named test.cem.g. The run files in these directories use the makefile in this directory to create the ...cem, ....cem.r files. After creating the ....cem.r files a diff is run between the .r and .g files. The output of these diffs is preceded by the line comparing ....cem Not all differences are caused by errors. Part of the output in the subdirectory ctmargt is a printout of the current environment variables. These will differ per user. The expected output in the directory ctconv is for a compiler that considers char's as signed quantities. The expected output in all directories is generated using 32-bit arithmetic. Using 16-bit arithmetic will cause several discrepancies to occur with the expected output in the ...cem.g files. The output of a run with a compiler using 2-bytes int can be found in the file Out2.std. If any other differences with the expected output occur, the error causing the diffence has to be rooted out by a person with some experience with the kit. Most errors will be caused by the backend programs, so looking at the assembly code generated by such a backend from EM code is a good strategy when looking for a cause. The programs in the directory ctgen are structured somewhat differently. This directory contains a file 'OPS' with a prototype program. This prototype program performs all C arithmetic operations on a few operands. The operands are X, Y, S, Z1, Z2. X, Y and S can be arbitrary expressions, but S is used as a shift count and must be less then 32 (16). Z1 and Z2 must be lvalue's. The name ISTART indicates global declarations and LSTART indicates local declarations. The files ....sed (e.g. test.sed) are used to produce legal C programs from the OPS file, in which the result of all expressions is printed. The programs are run in the way described above. If one has a implementation without floating point one can use the -DNOFLOAT flag. Most programs use compile time #ifdef's to hide the use of floating point they make. Differences are to be expected in the output of such a run. Look at the file Out2.nf.std or Out4.nf.std to see what can be expected.