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| <h1>
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|   LLVM test-suite Makefile Guide
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| </h1>
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| 
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| <ol>
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|   <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
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|   <li><a href="#testsuitestructure">Test suite structure</a></li>
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|   <li><a href="#testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a>
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|     <ul>
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|       <li><a href="#testsuiteexternal">Configuring External Tests</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#testsuitetests">Running different tests</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for test-suite</a></li>
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|    </ul>
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|   </li>
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| </ol>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_author">
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|   <p>Written by John T. Criswell, Daniel Dunbar, Reid Spencer, and Tanya Lattner</p>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| <h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>This document describes the features of the Makefile-based LLVM
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| test-suite. This way of interacting with the test-suite is deprecated in favor
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| of running the test-suite using LNT, but may continue to prove useful for some
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| users. See the Testing
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| Guide's <a href="TestingGuide.html#testsuitequickstart">test-suite
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| Quickstart</a> section for more information.</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| <h2><a name="testsuitestructure">Test suite Structure</a></h2>
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>The <tt>test-suite</tt> module contains a number of programs that can be compiled 
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| with LLVM and executed. These programs are compiled using the native compiler
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| and various LLVM backends. The output from the program compiled with the 
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| native compiler is assumed correct; the results from the other programs are
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| compared to the native program output and pass if they match.</p>
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| 
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| <p>When executing tests, it is usually a good idea to start out with a subset of
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| the available tests or programs. This makes test run times smaller at first and
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| later on this is useful to investigate individual test failures. To run some
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| test only on a subset of programs, simply change directory to the programs you
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| want tested and run <tt>gmake</tt> there. Alternatively, you can run a different
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| test using the <tt>TEST</tt> variable to change what tests or run on the
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| selected programs (see below for more info).</p>
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| 
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| <p>In addition for testing correctness, the <tt>test-suite</tt> directory also
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| performs timing tests of various LLVM optimizations.  It also records
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| compilation times for the compilers and the JIT.  This information can be
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| used to compare the effectiveness of LLVM's optimizations and code
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| generation.</p>
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| 
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| <p><tt>test-suite</tt> tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource,
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| SingleSource, and External.</p> 
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| 
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| <ul>
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| <li><tt>test-suite/SingleSource</tt>
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| <p>The SingleSource directory contains test programs that are only a single 
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| source file in size.  These are usually small benchmark programs or small 
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| programs that calculate a particular value.  Several such programs are grouped 
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| together in each directory.</p></li>
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| 
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| <li><tt>test-suite/MultiSource</tt>
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| <p>The MultiSource directory contains subdirectories which contain entire 
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| programs with multiple source files.  Large benchmarks and whole applications 
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| go here.</p></li>
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| 
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| <li><tt>test-suite/External</tt>
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| <p>The External directory contains Makefiles for building code that is external
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| to (i.e., not distributed with) LLVM.  The most prominent members of this
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| directory are the SPEC 95 and SPEC 2000 benchmark suites. The <tt>External</tt>
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| directory does not contain these actual tests, but only the Makefiles that know
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| how to properly compile these programs from somewhere else. The presence and
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| location of these external programs is configured by the test-suite
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| <tt>configure</tt> script.</p></li>
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| </ul>
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| 
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| <p>Each tree is then subdivided into several categories, including applications,
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| benchmarks, regression tests, code that is strange grammatically, etc.  These
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| organizations should be relatively self explanatory.</p>
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| 
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| <p>Some tests are known to fail.  Some are bugs that we have not fixed yet;
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| others are features that we haven't added yet (or may never add).  In the
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| regression tests, the result for such tests will be XFAIL (eXpected FAILure).
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| In this way, you can tell the difference between an expected and unexpected
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| failure.</p>
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| 
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| <p>The tests in the test suite have no such feature at this time. If the
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| test passes, only warnings and other miscellaneous output will be generated.  If
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| a test fails, a large <program> FAILED message will be displayed.  This
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| will help you separate benign warnings from actual test failures.</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| <h2><a name="testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a></h2>
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>First, all tests are executed within the LLVM object directory tree.  They
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| <i>are not</i> executed inside of the LLVM source tree. This is because the
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| test suite creates temporary files during execution.</p>
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| 
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| <p>To run the test suite, you need to use the following steps:</p>
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| 
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| <ol>
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|   <li><tt>cd</tt> into the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory in your source tree.
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|   </li>
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| 
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|   <li><p>Check out the <tt>test-suite</tt> module with:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk test-suite
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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|     <p>This will get the test suite into <tt>llvm/projects/test-suite</tt>.</p>
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|   </li>
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|   <li><p>Configure and build <tt>llvm</tt>.</p></li>
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|   <li><p>Configure and build <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>.</p></li>
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|   <li><p>Install <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> somewhere.</p></li>
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|   <li><p><em>Re-configure</em> <tt>llvm</tt> from the top level of
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|       each build tree (LLVM object directory tree) in which you want
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|       to run the test suite, just as you do before building LLVM.</p>
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|     <p>During the <em>re-configuration</em>, you must either: (1)
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|       have <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> you just built in your path, or (2)
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|       specify the directory where your just-built <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is
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|       installed using <tt>--with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt>.</p>
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|     <p>You must also tell the configure machinery that the test suite
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|       is available so it can be configured for your build tree:</p>
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT ; $LLVM_SRC_ROOT/configure [--with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR]
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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|     <p>[Remember that <tt>$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt> is the directory where you
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|     <em>installed</em> llvm-gcc, not its src or obj directory.]</p>
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|   </li>
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| 
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|   <li><p>You can now run the test suite from your build tree as follows:</p>
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT/projects/test-suite
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| % make
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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|   </li>
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| </ol>
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| <p>Note that the second and third steps only need to be done once. After you
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| have the suite checked out and configured, you don't need to do it again (unless
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| the test code or configure script changes).</p>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3>
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|   <a name="testsuiteexternal">Configuring External Tests</a>
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| </h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| 
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| <div>
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| <p>In order to run the External tests in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
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|   module, you must specify <i>--with-externals</i>.  This
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|   must be done during the <em>re-configuration</em> step (see above),
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|   and the <tt>llvm</tt> re-configuration must recognize the
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|   previously-built <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>.  If any of these is missing or
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|   neglected, the External tests won't work.</p>
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| <dl>
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| <dt><i>--with-externals</i></dt>
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| <dt><i>--with-externals=<<tt>directory</tt>></i></dt>
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| </dl>
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|   This tells LLVM where to find any external tests.  They are expected to be
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|   in specifically named subdirectories of <<tt>directory</tt>>.
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|   If <tt>directory</tt> is left unspecified,
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|   <tt>configure</tt> uses the default value
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|   <tt>/home/vadve/shared/benchmarks/speccpu2000/benchspec</tt>.
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|   Subdirectory names known to LLVM include:
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|   <dl>
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|   <dt>spec95</dt>
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|   <dt>speccpu2000</dt>
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|   <dt>speccpu2006</dt>
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|   <dt>povray31</dt>
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|   </dl>
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|   Others are added from time to time, and can be determined from 
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|   <tt>configure</tt>.
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3>
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|   <a name="testsuitetests">Running different tests</a>
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| </h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <div>
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| <p>In addition to the regular "whole program" tests, the <tt>test-suite</tt>
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| module also provides a mechanism for compiling the programs in different ways.
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| If the variable TEST is defined on the <tt>gmake</tt> command line, the test system will
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| include a Makefile named <tt>TEST.<value of TEST variable>.Makefile</tt>.
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| This Makefile can modify build rules to yield different results.</p>
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| 
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| <p>For example, the LLVM nightly tester uses <tt>TEST.nightly.Makefile</tt> to
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| create the nightly test reports.  To run the nightly tests, run <tt>gmake
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| TEST=nightly</tt>.</p>
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| 
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| <p>There are several TEST Makefiles available in the tree.  Some of them are
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| designed for internal LLVM research and will not work outside of the LLVM
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| research group.  They may still be valuable, however, as a guide to writing your
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| own TEST Makefile for any optimization or analysis passes that you develop with
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| LLVM.</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3>
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|   <a name="testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a>
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| </h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <div>
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|   <p>There are a number of ways to run the tests and generate output. The most
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|   simple one is simply running <tt>gmake</tt> with no arguments. This will
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|   compile and run all programs in the tree using a number of different methods
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|   and compare results. Any failures are reported in the output, but are likely
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|   drowned in the other output. Passes are not reported explicitly.</p>
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| 
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|   <p>Somewhat better is running <tt>gmake TEST=sometest test</tt>, which runs
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|   the specified test and usually adds per-program summaries to the output
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|   (depending on which sometest you use). For example, the <tt>nightly</tt> test
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|   explicitly outputs TEST-PASS or TEST-FAIL for every test after each program.
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|   Though these lines are still drowned in the output, it's easy to grep the
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|   output logs in the Output directories.</p>
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| 
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|   <p>Even better are the <tt>report</tt> and <tt>report.format</tt> targets
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|   (where <tt>format</tt> is one of <tt>html</tt>, <tt>csv</tt>, <tt>text</tt> or
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|   <tt>graphs</tt>). The exact contents of the report are dependent on which
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|   <tt>TEST</tt> you are running, but the text results are always shown at the
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|   end of the run and the results are always stored in the
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|   <tt>report.<type>.format</tt> file (when running with
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|   <tt>TEST=<type></tt>).
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| 
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|   The <tt>report</tt> also generate a file called
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|   <tt>report.<type>.raw.out</tt> containing the output of the entire test
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|   run.
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3>
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|   <a name="testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for the test suite</a>
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| </h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>Assuming you can run the test suite, (e.g. "<tt>gmake TEST=nightly report</tt>"
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| should work), it is really easy to run optimizations or code generator
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| components against every program in the tree, collecting statistics or running
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| custom checks for correctness.  At base, this is how the nightly tester works,
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| it's just one example of a general framework.</p>
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| 
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| <p>Lets say that you have an LLVM optimization pass, and you want to see how
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| many times it triggers.  First thing you should do is add an LLVM
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| <a href="ProgrammersManual.html#Statistic">statistic</a> to your pass, which
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| will tally counts of things you care about.</p>
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| 
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| <p>Following this, you can set up a test and a report that collects these and
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| formats them for easy viewing.  This consists of two files, a
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| "<tt>test-suite/TEST.XXX.Makefile</tt>" fragment (where XXX is the name of your
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| test) and a "<tt>test-suite/TEST.XXX.report</tt>" file that indicates how to
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| format the output into a table.  There are many example reports of various
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| levels of sophistication included with the test suite, and the framework is very
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| general.</p>
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| 
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| <p>If you are interested in testing an optimization pass, check out the
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| "libcalls" test as an example.  It can be run like this:<p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % cd llvm/projects/test-suite/MultiSource/Benchmarks  # or some other level
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| % make TEST=libcalls report
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>This will do a bunch of stuff, then eventually print a table like this:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| Name                                  | total | #exit |
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| ...
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| FreeBench/analyzer/analyzer           | 51    | 6     | 
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| FreeBench/fourinarow/fourinarow       | 1     | 1     | 
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| FreeBench/neural/neural               | 19    | 9     | 
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| FreeBench/pifft/pifft                 | 5     | 3     | 
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| MallocBench/cfrac/cfrac               | 1     | *     | 
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| MallocBench/espresso/espresso         | 52    | 12    | 
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| MallocBench/gs/gs                     | 4     | *     | 
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| Prolangs-C/TimberWolfMC/timberwolfmc  | 302   | *     | 
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| Prolangs-C/agrep/agrep                | 33    | 12    | 
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| Prolangs-C/allroots/allroots          | *     | *     | 
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| Prolangs-C/assembler/assembler        | 47    | *     | 
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| Prolangs-C/bison/mybison              | 74    | *     | 
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| ...
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>This basically is grepping the -stats output and displaying it in a table.
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| You can also use the "TEST=libcalls report.html" target to get the table in HTML
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| form, similarly for report.csv and report.tex.</p>
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| 
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| <p>The source for this is in test-suite/TEST.libcalls.*.  The format is pretty
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| simple: the Makefile indicates how to run the test (in this case, 
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| "<tt>opt -simplify-libcalls -stats</tt>"), and the report contains one line for
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| each column of the output.  The first value is the header for the column and the
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| second is the regex to grep the output of the command for.  There are lots of
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| example reports that can do fancy stuff.</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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