22 Mar
2004
22 Mar
'04
5:24 p.m.
If such a thing can be pried loose, I'd love a
copy. I
intend to build a VAX emulator at some point and I'd feel
more confident if I had exhaustive exerciser tests for it.
(I have a rudimentary version working now, but I have to just
trust that I haven't made some subtle mistake somewhere....)
I never had access to AXE, but as I understand it, it would
generate semi-random sequences of instructions and then
execute them. Then it would compare the actual results
with known good results. I don't know the details of how
it would determine "known good results" given that the sequence
was semi-random.
So you would kick it off and if the machine under test did not
fall over in a heap after a few weeks or months of running,
then it was probably good enough.
Antonio
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