Answers to Comment Questions- February 20, 2004 Ron A couple of questions from Woon Kiat to my previous post on the different types of testing we do on our C++ compiler: >>Is understanding the inner working of a compiler vital to compiler testing I would say so, at least at some level. In a general sense, I would say it's hard to be really successful at testing anything without understanding the domain area of what you are testing. That said, I don't think many folks came to our compiler test teams with a lot of understanding of..http://blogs.msdn.com/fivetestersfromvc/archive/2004/02/20/76776.aspx New Whitepaper: Floating Point Code Generation in Whidbey- February 19, 2004 Ron One of the major new features in the area of code generation for the upcoming Whidbey release of VC++ is our new floating point code generation model. One of the members of my team, Eric Fleegal, has written a nice white paper about this feature for MSDN: http:msdn.microsoft.comlibrarydefault.aspurl=libraryen-usdv_vstecharthtmlfloapoint.asphttp://blogs.msdn.com/fivetestersfromvc/archive/2004/02/19/76588.aspx Why I'm blogging...- February 13, 2004 Michael I've got a circuitious style - so if you're impatient, you may want to skip this thread. I'm going to talk about one of the big reasons I'm participating in this blog, and what I'm hoping to gain from it. I'm also big on analogies and stories - and as a fan or Robert Fulghum, I hope this one all makes sense in the end. I went to a physical therapist a while ago - had some pain in my shoulders and arm. I was in a sour mood. Wasn't as productive at work as I wanted to be. I got there and..http://blogs.msdn.com/fivetestersfromvc/archive/2004/02/12/72216.aspx |