3 files changed, 23 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/tests/core/test_bigarray.in b/tests/core/test_bigarray.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0255c207
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/core/test_bigarray.in
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+
+// avoid "array initializer too large" errors
+      #include <stdio.h>
+      #include <assert.h>
+
+      #define SIZE (1024*100)
+      struct Struct {
+        char x;
+        int y;
+      };
+      Struct buffy[SIZE];
+
+      int main() {
+        for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) { assert(buffy[i].x == 0 && buffy[i].y == 0); } // we were zeroinitialized
+        for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) { buffy[i].x = i*i; buffy[i].y = i*i*i; } // we can save data
+        printf("*%d*\n", buffy[SIZE/3].x);
+        return 0;
+      }
+      
diff --git a/tests/core/test_bigarray.out b/tests/core/test_bigarray.out
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..33485c46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/core/test_bigarray.out
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+*57*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/test_core.py b/tests/test_core.py
index f5285db0..e5874a6a 100644
--- a/tests/test_core.py
+++ b/tests/test_core.py
@@ -1739,26 +1739,10 @@ class T(RunnerCore): # Short name, to make it more fun to use manually on the co
   def test_bigarray(self):
     if self.emcc_args is None: return self.skip('need ta2 to compress type data on zeroinitializers')
 
-    # avoid "array initializer too large" errors
-    src = r'''
-      #include <stdio.h>
-      #include <assert.h>
-
-      #define SIZE (1024*100)
-      struct Struct {
-        char x;
-        int y;
-      };
-      Struct buffy[SIZE];
+    test_path = path_from_root('tests', 'core', 'test_bigarray')
+    src, output = (test_path + s for s in ('.in', '.out'))
 
-      int main() {
-        for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) { assert(buffy[i].x == 0 && buffy[i].y == 0); } // we were zeroinitialized
-        for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) { buffy[i].x = i*i; buffy[i].y = i*i*i; } // we can save data
-        printf("*%d*\n", buffy[SIZE/3].x);
-        return 0;
-      }
-      '''
-    self.do_run(src, '*57*')
+    self.do_run_from_file(src, output)
 
   def test_mod_globalstruct(self):
       src = '''