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|   <title>LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide</title>
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| <h1>
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|   LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide
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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="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
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|   <li><a href="#org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a>
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|     <ul>
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|       <li><a href="#regressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#testsuite"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#debuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
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|     </ul>
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|   </li>
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|   <li><a href="#quick">Quick start</a>
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|     <ul>
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|       <li><a href="#quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
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|    </ul>
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|   </li>
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|   <li><a href="#rtstructure">Regression test structure</a>
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|     <ul>
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|       <li><a href="#rtcustom">Writing new regression tests</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#rtvars">Variables and substitutions</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#rtfeatures">Other features</a></li>
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|    </ul>
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|   </li>
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|   <li><a href="#testsuiteoverview"><tt>test-suite</tt> Overview</a>
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|     <ul>
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|       <li><a href="#testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a></li>
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|       <li><a href="#testsuitemakefiles"><tt>test-suite</tt> Makefiles</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 is the reference manual for the LLVM testing infrastructure. It
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| documents the structure of the LLVM testing infrastructure, the tools needed to
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| use it, and how to add and run tests.</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="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>In order to use the LLVM testing infrastructure, you will need all of the
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| software required to build LLVM, as well
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| as <a href="http://python.org">Python</a> 2.4 or later.</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="org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</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 LLVM testing infrastructure contains two major categories of tests:
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| regression tests and whole programs. The regression tests are contained inside
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| the LLVM repository itself under <tt>llvm/test</tt> and are expected to always
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| pass -- they should be run before every commit.</p>
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| 
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| <p>The whole programs tests are referred to as the "LLVM test suite" (or
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| "test-suite") and are in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module in subversion. For
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| historical reasons, these tests are also referred to as the "nightly tests" in
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| places, which is less ambiguous than "test-suite" and remains in use although we
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| run them much more often than nightly.</p>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3><a name="regressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>The regression tests are small pieces of code that test a specific feature of
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| LLVM or trigger a specific bug in LLVM.  They are usually written in LLVM
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| assembly language, but can be written in other languages if the test targets a
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| particular language front end (and the appropriate <tt>--with-llvmgcc</tt>
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| options were used at <tt>configure</tt> time of the <tt>llvm</tt> module). These
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| tests are driven by the 'lit' testing tool, which is part of LLVM.</p>
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| 
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| <p>These code fragments are not complete programs. The code generated
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| from them is never executed to determine correct behavior.</p>
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| 
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| <p>These code fragment tests are located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt>
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| directory.</p>
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| 
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| <p>Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing 
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| just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed 
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| somewhere underneath this directory.  In most cases, this will be a small 
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| piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual 
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| application or benchmark.</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3><a name="testsuite"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>The test suite contains whole programs, which are pieces of code which can be
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| compiled and linked into a stand-alone program that can be executed.  These
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| programs are generally written in high level languages such as C or C++.</p>
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| 
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| <p>These programs are compiled using a user specified compiler and set of flags,
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| and then executed to capture the program output and timing information.  The
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| output of these programs is compared to a reference output to ensure that the
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| program is being compiled correctly.</p>
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| 
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| <p>In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as
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| a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the
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| programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and
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| generates code.</p>
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| 
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| <p>The test-suite is located in the <tt>test-suite</tt> Subversion module.</p> 
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3><a name="debuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>The test suite contains tests to check quality of debugging information.
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| The test are written in C based languages or in LLVM assembly language. </p>
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| 
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| <p>These tests are compiled and run under a debugger. The debugger output
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| is checked to validate of debugging information. See README.txt in the 
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| test suite for more information . This test suite is located in the 
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| <tt>debuginfo-tests</tt> Subversion module. </p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| <h2><a name="quick">Quick start</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 tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The regressions
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|   tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory
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|   <tt>llvm/test</tt> (so you get these tests for free with the main llvm
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|   tree). Use "make check-all" to run the regression tests after building
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|   LLVM.</p>
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| 
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|   <p>The more comprehensive test suite that includes whole programs in C and C++
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|   is in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
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|   module. See <a href="#testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a>
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|   for more information on running these tests.</p>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3><a name="quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
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| <div>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <p>To run all of the LLVM regression tests, use master Makefile in
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|  the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % gmake -C llvm/test
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>or</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % gmake check
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>If you have <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang</a> checked out and built,
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| you can run the LLVM and Clang tests simultaneously using:</p>
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| 
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| <p>or</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % gmake check-all
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
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| <tt>VG=1</tt> to the commands above, e.g.:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % gmake check VG=1
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>To run individual tests or subsets of tests, you can use the 'llvm-lit'
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| script which is built as part of LLVM. For example, to run the
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| 'Integer/BitCast.ll' test by itself you can run:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/Integer/BitCast.ll 
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>or to run all of the ARM CodeGen tests:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| % llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>For more information on using the 'lit' tool, see 'llvm-lit --help' or the
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| 'lit' man page.</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3><a name="quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></h3>
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| <div>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p> To run debugging information tests simply checkout the tests inside
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| clang/test directory. </p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| %cd clang/test
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| % svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/debuginfo-tests/trunk debuginfo-tests
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p> These tests are already set up to run as part of clang regression tests.</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| <h2><a name="rtstructure">Regression test structure</a></h2>
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| <!--=========================================================================-->
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| <div>
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|   <p>The LLVM regression tests are driven by 'lit' and are located in
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|   the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.
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| 
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|   <p>This directory contains a large array of small tests
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|   that exercise various features of LLVM and to ensure that regressions do not
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|   occur. The directory is broken into several sub-directories, each focused on
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|   a particular area of LLVM. A few of the important ones are:</p>
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| 
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|   <ul>
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|     <li><tt>Analysis</tt>: checks Analysis passes.</li>
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|     <li><tt>Archive</tt>: checks the Archive library.</li>
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|     <li><tt>Assembler</tt>: checks Assembly reader/writer functionality.</li>
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|     <li><tt>Bitcode</tt>: checks Bitcode reader/writer functionality.</li>
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|     <li><tt>CodeGen</tt>: checks code generation and each target.</li>
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|     <li><tt>Features</tt>: checks various features of the LLVM language.</li>
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|     <li><tt>Linker</tt>: tests bitcode linking.</li>
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|     <li><tt>Transforms</tt>: tests each of the scalar, IPO, and utility
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|     transforms to ensure they make the right transformations.</li>
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|     <li><tt>Verifier</tt>: tests the IR verifier.</li>
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|   </ul>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3><a name="rtcustom">Writing new regression tests</a></h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <div>
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|   <p>The regression test structure is very simple, but does require some
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|   information to be set. This information is gathered via <tt>configure</tt> and
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|   is written to a file, <tt>lit.site.cfg</tt>
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|   in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. The <tt>llvm/test</tt> Makefile does this work for
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|   you.</p>
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| 
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|   <p>In order for the regression tests to work, each directory of tests must
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|   have a <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> file. Lit looks for this file to determine how
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|   to run the tests. This file is just Python code and thus is very flexible,
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|   but we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a
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|   directory of tests, just copy <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> from another directory to
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|   get running. The standard <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> simply specifies which files
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|   to look in for tests. Any directory that contains only directories does not
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|   need the <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> file. Read the
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|   <a href="http://llvm.org/cmds/lit.html">Lit documentation</a> for more
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|   information. </p>
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| 
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|   <p>The <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function looks at each file that is passed to
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|   it and gathers any lines together that match "RUN:". These are the "RUN" lines
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|   that specify how the test is to be run. So, each test script must contain
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|   RUN lines if it is to do anything. If there are no RUN lines, the
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|   <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function will issue an error and the test will
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|   fail.</p>
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| 
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|   <p>RUN lines are specified in the comments of the test program using the 
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|   keyword <tt>RUN</tt> followed by a colon, and lastly the command (pipeline) 
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|   to execute.  Together, these lines form the "script" that 
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|   <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> executes to run the test case.  The syntax of the
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|   RUN lines is similar to a shell's syntax for pipelines including I/O
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|   redirection and variable substitution.  However, even though these lines 
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|   may <i>look</i> like a shell script, they are not. RUN lines are interpreted 
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|   directly by the Tcl <tt>exec</tt> command. They are never executed by a 
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|   shell. Consequently the syntax differs from normal shell script syntax in a 
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|   few ways.  You can specify as many RUN lines as needed.</p>
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| 
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|   <p>lit performs substitution on each RUN line to replace LLVM tool
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|   names with the full paths to the executable built for each tool (in
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|   $(LLVM_OBJ_ROOT)/$(BuildMode)/bin).  This ensures that lit does not
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|   invoke any stray LLVM tools in the user's path during testing.</p>
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| 
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|   <p>Each RUN line is executed on its own, distinct from other lines unless
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|   its last character is <tt>\</tt>. This continuation character causes the RUN
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|   line to be concatenated with the next one. In this way you can build up long
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|   pipelines of commands without making huge line lengths. The lines ending in
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|   <tt>\</tt> are concatenated until a RUN line that doesn't end in <tt>\</tt> is
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|   found. This concatenated set of RUN lines then constitutes one execution. 
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|   Tcl will substitute variables and arrange for the pipeline to be executed. If
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|   any process in the pipeline fails, the entire line (and test case) fails too.
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|   </p>
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| 
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|   <p> Below is an example of legal RUN lines in a <tt>.ll</tt> file:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llvm-dis > %t1
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| ; RUN: llvm-dis < %s.bc-13 > %t2
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| ; RUN: diff %t1 %t2
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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|   <p>As with a Unix shell, the RUN: lines permit pipelines and I/O redirection
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|   to be used. However, the usage is slightly different than for Bash. To check
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|   what's legal, see the documentation for the 
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|   <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/exec.htm#M2">Tcl exec</a>
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|   command and the 
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|   <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl26.html">tutorial</a>. 
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|   The major differences are:</p>
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|   <ul>
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|     <li>You can't do <tt>2>&1</tt>. That will cause Tcl to write to a
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|     file named <tt>&1</tt>. Usually this is done to get stderr to go through
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|     a pipe. You can do that in tcl with <tt>|&</tt> so replace this idiom:
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|     <tt>... 2>&1 | grep</tt> with <tt>... |& grep</tt></li>
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|     <li>You can only redirect to a file, not to another descriptor and not from
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|     a here document.</li>
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|     <li>tcl supports redirecting to open files with the @ syntax but you
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|     shouldn't use that here.</li>
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|   </ul>
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| 
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|   <p>There are some quoting rules that you must pay attention to when writing
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|   your RUN lines. In general nothing needs to be quoted. Tcl won't strip off any
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|   quote characters so they will get passed to the invoked program. For
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|   example:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ... | grep 'find this string'
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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|   <p>This will fail because the ' characters are passed to grep. This would
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|   instruction grep to look for <tt>'find</tt> in the files <tt>this</tt> and
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|   <tt>string'</tt>. To avoid this use curly braces to tell Tcl that it should
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|   treat everything enclosed as one value. So our example would become:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ... | grep {find this string}
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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|   <p>Additionally, the characters <tt>[</tt> and <tt>]</tt> are treated 
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|   specially by Tcl. They tell Tcl to interpret the content as a command to
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|   execute. Since these characters are often used in regular expressions this can
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|   have disastrous results and cause the entire test run in a directory to fail.
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|   For example, a common idiom is to look for some basicblock number:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ... | grep bb[2-8]
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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|   <p>This, however, will cause Tcl to fail because its going to try to execute
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|   a program named "2-8". Instead, what you want is this:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ... | grep {bb\[2-8\]}
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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|   <p>Finally, if you need to pass the <tt>\</tt> character down to a program,
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|   then it must be doubled. This is another Tcl special character. So, suppose
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|   you had:
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ... | grep 'i32\*'
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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|   <p>This will fail to match what you want (a pointer to i32). First, the
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|   <tt>'</tt> do not get stripped off. Second, the <tt>\</tt> gets stripped off
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|   by Tcl so what grep sees is: <tt>'i32*'</tt>. That's not likely to match
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|   anything. To resolve this you must use <tt>\\</tt> and the <tt>{}</tt>, like
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|   this:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ... | grep {i32\\*}
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| </pre>
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| </div>
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| 
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| <p>If your system includes GNU <tt>grep</tt>, make sure
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| that <tt>GREP_OPTIONS</tt> is not set in your environment. Otherwise,
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| you may get invalid results (both false positives and false
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| negatives).</p>
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| 
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| </div>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h3><a name="FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></h3>
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>A powerful feature of the RUN: lines is that it allows any arbitrary commands
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|    to be executed as part of the test harness.  While standard (portable) unix
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|    tools like 'grep' work fine on run lines, as you see above, there are a lot
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|    of caveats due to interaction with Tcl syntax, and we want to make sure the
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|    run lines are portable to a wide range of systems.  Another major problem is
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|    that grep is not very good at checking to verify that the output of a tools
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|    contains a series of different output in a specific order.  The FileCheck
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|    tool was designed to help with these problems.</p>
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| 
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| <p>FileCheck (whose basic command line arguments are described in <a
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|    href="http://llvm.org/cmds/FileCheck.html">the FileCheck man page</a> is
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|    designed to read a file to check from standard input, and the set of things
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|    to verify from a file specified as a command line argument.  A simple example
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|    of using FileCheck from a RUN line looks like this:</p>
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|    
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -march=x86-64 | <b>FileCheck %s</b>
 | |
| </pre>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>This syntax says to pipe the current file ("%s") into llvm-as, pipe that into
 | |
| llc, then pipe the output of llc into FileCheck.  This means that FileCheck will
 | |
| be verifying its standard input (the llc output) against the filename argument
 | |
| specified (the original .ll file specified by "%s").  To see how this works,
 | |
| let's look at the rest of the .ll file (after the RUN line):</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div class="doc_code">
 | |
| <pre>
 | |
| define void @sub1(i32* %p, i32 %v) {
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| entry:
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK: sub1:</b>
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK: subl</b>
 | |
|         %0 = tail call i32 @llvm.atomic.load.sub.i32.p0i32(i32* %p, i32 %v)
 | |
|         ret void
 | |
| }
 | |
| 
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| define void @inc4(i64* %p) {
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| entry:
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| ; <b>CHECK: inc4:</b>
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK: incq</b>
 | |
|         %0 = tail call i64 @llvm.atomic.load.add.i64.p0i64(i64* %p, i64 1)
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|         ret void
 | |
| }
 | |
| </pre>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>Here you can see some "CHECK:" lines specified in comments.  Now you can see
 | |
| how the file is piped into llvm-as, then llc, and the machine code output is
 | |
| what we are verifying.  FileCheck checks the machine code output to verify that
 | |
| it matches what the "CHECK:" lines specify.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>The syntax of the CHECK: lines is very simple: they are fixed strings that
 | |
| must occur in order.  FileCheck defaults to ignoring horizontal whitespace
 | |
| differences (e.g. a space is allowed to match a tab) but otherwise, the contents
 | |
| of the CHECK: line is required to match some thing in the test file exactly.</p>
 | |
| 
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| <p>One nice thing about FileCheck (compared to grep) is that it allows merging
 | |
| test cases together into logical groups.  For example, because the test above
 | |
| is checking for the "sub1:" and "inc4:" labels, it will not match unless there
 | |
| is a "subl" in between those labels.  If it existed somewhere else in the file,
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| that would not count: "grep subl" matches if subl exists anywhere in the
 | |
| file.</p>
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| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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| <h4>
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|   <a name="FileCheck-check-prefix">The FileCheck -check-prefix option</a>
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| </h4>
 | |
| 
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| <div>
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| 
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| <p>The FileCheck -check-prefix option allows multiple test configurations to be
 | |
| driven from one .ll file.  This is useful in many circumstances, for example,
 | |
| testing different architectural variants with llc.  Here's a simple example:</p>
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| 
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| <div class="doc_code">
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| <pre>
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| ; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -mtriple=i686-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \
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| ; RUN:              | <b>FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X32</b>
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| ; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -mtriple=x86_64-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \
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| ; RUN:              | <b>FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X64</b>
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| 
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| define <4 x i32> @pinsrd_1(i32 %s, <4 x i32> %tmp) nounwind {
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|         %tmp1 = insertelement <4 x i32> %tmp, i32 %s, i32 1
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|         ret <4 x i32> %tmp1
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| ; <b>X32:</b> pinsrd_1:
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| ; <b>X32:</b>    pinsrd $1, 4(%esp), %xmm0
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| 
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| ; <b>X64:</b> pinsrd_1:
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| ; <b>X64:</b>    pinsrd $1, %edi, %xmm0
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| }
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| </pre>
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| </div>
 | |
| 
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| <p>In this case, we're testing that we get the expected code generation with
 | |
| both 32-bit and 64-bit code generation.</p>
 | |
| 
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| </div>
 | |
| 
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| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <h4>
 | |
|   <a name="FileCheck-CHECK-NEXT">The "CHECK-NEXT:" directive</a>
 | |
| </h4>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>Sometimes you want to match lines and would like to verify that matches
 | |
| happen on exactly consecutive lines with no other lines in between them.  In
 | |
| this case, you can use CHECK: and CHECK-NEXT: directives to specify this.  If
 | |
| you specified a custom check prefix, just use "<PREFIX>-NEXT:".  For
 | |
| example, something like this works as you'd expect:</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div class="doc_code">
 | |
| <pre>
 | |
| define void @t2(<2 x double>* %r, <2 x double>* %A, double %B) {
 | |
| 	%tmp3 = load <2 x double>* %A, align 16
 | |
| 	%tmp7 = insertelement <2 x double> undef, double %B, i32 0
 | |
| 	%tmp9 = shufflevector <2 x double> %tmp3,
 | |
|                               <2 x double> %tmp7,
 | |
|                               <2 x i32> < i32 0, i32 2 >
 | |
| 	store <2 x double> %tmp9, <2 x double>* %r, align 16
 | |
| 	ret void
 | |
|         
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK:</b> t2:
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK:</b> 	movl	8(%esp), %eax
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> 	movapd	(%eax), %xmm0
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> 	movhpd	12(%esp), %xmm0
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> 	movl	4(%esp), %eax
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> 	movapd	%xmm0, (%eax)
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> 	ret
 | |
| }
 | |
| </pre>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>CHECK-NEXT: directives reject the input unless there is exactly one newline
 | |
| between it an the previous directive.  A CHECK-NEXT cannot be the first
 | |
| directive in a file.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <h4>
 | |
|   <a name="FileCheck-CHECK-NOT">The "CHECK-NOT:" directive</a>
 | |
| </h4>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>The CHECK-NOT: directive is used to verify that a string doesn't occur
 | |
| between two matches (or the first match and the beginning of the file).  For
 | |
| example, to verify that a load is removed by a transformation, a test like this
 | |
| can be used:</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div class="doc_code">
 | |
| <pre>
 | |
| define i8 @coerce_offset0(i32 %V, i32* %P) {
 | |
|   store i32 %V, i32* %P
 | |
|    
 | |
|   %P2 = bitcast i32* %P to i8*
 | |
|   %P3 = getelementptr i8* %P2, i32 2
 | |
| 
 | |
|   %A = load i8* %P3
 | |
|   ret i8 %A
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK:</b> @coerce_offset0
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK-NOT:</b> load
 | |
| ; <b>CHECK:</b> ret i8
 | |
| }
 | |
| </pre>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <h4>
 | |
|   <a name="FileCheck-Matching">FileCheck Pattern Matching Syntax</a>
 | |
| </h4>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- {% raw %} -->
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>The CHECK: and CHECK-NOT: directives both take a pattern to match.  For most
 | |
| uses of FileCheck, fixed string matching is perfectly sufficient.  For some
 | |
| things, a more flexible form of matching is desired.  To support this, FileCheck
 | |
| allows you to specify regular expressions in matching strings, surrounded by
 | |
| double braces: <b>{{yourregex}}</b>.  Because we want to use fixed string
 | |
| matching for a majority of what we do, FileCheck has been designed to support
 | |
| mixing and matching fixed string matching with regular expressions.  This allows
 | |
| you to write things like this:</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div class="doc_code">
 | |
| <pre>
 | |
| ; CHECK: movhpd	<b>{{[0-9]+}}</b>(%esp), <b>{{%xmm[0-7]}}</b>
 | |
| </pre>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>In this case, any offset from the ESP register will be allowed, and any xmm
 | |
| register will be allowed.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>Because regular expressions are enclosed with double braces, they are
 | |
| visually distinct, and you don't need to use escape characters within the double
 | |
| braces like you would in C.  In the rare case that you want to match double
 | |
| braces explicitly from the input, you can use something ugly like
 | |
| <b>{{[{][{]}}</b> as your pattern.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- {% endraw %} -->
 | |
| 
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <h4>
 | |
|   <a name="FileCheck-Variables">FileCheck Variables</a>
 | |
| </h4>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- {% raw %} -->
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>It is often useful to match a pattern and then verify that it occurs again
 | |
| later in the file.  For codegen tests, this can be useful to allow any register,
 | |
| but verify that that register is used consistently later.  To do this, FileCheck
 | |
| allows named variables to be defined and substituted into patterns.  Here is a
 | |
| simple example:</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div class="doc_code">
 | |
| <pre>
 | |
| ; CHECK: test5:
 | |
| ; CHECK:    notw	<b>[[REGISTER:%[a-z]+]]</b>
 | |
| ; CHECK:    andw	{{.*}}<b>[[REGISTER]]</b>
 | |
| </pre>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>The first check line matches a regex (<tt>%[a-z]+</tt>) and captures it into
 | |
| the variables "REGISTER".  The second line verifies that whatever is in REGISTER
 | |
| occurs later in the file after an "andw".  FileCheck variable references are
 | |
| always contained in <tt>[[ ]]</tt> pairs, are named, and their names can be
 | |
| formed with the regex "<tt>[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*</tt>".  If a colon follows the
 | |
| name, then it is a definition of the variable, if not, it is a use.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>FileCheck variables can be defined multiple times, and uses always get the
 | |
| latest value.  Note that variables are all read at the start of a "CHECK" line
 | |
| and are all defined at the end.  This means that if you have something like
 | |
| "<tt>CHECK: [[XYZ:.*]]x[[XYZ]]</tt>" that the check line will read the previous
 | |
| value of the XYZ variable and define a new one after the match is performed.  If
 | |
| you need to do something like this you can probably take advantage of the fact
 | |
| that FileCheck is not actually line-oriented when it matches, this allows you to
 | |
| define two separate CHECK lines that match on the same line.
 | |
| </p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- {% endraw %} -->
 | |
| 
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <h3><a name="rtvars">Variables and substitutions</a></h3>
 | |
| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <div>
 | |
|   <p>With a RUN line there are a number of substitutions that are permitted. In
 | |
|   general, any Tcl variable that is available in the <tt>substitute</tt> 
 | |
|   function (in <tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) can be substituted into a RUN line.
 | |
|   To make a substitution just write the variable's name preceded by a $. 
 | |
|   Additionally, for compatibility reasons with previous versions of the test
 | |
|   library, certain names can be accessed with an alternate syntax: a % prefix.
 | |
|   These alternates are deprecated and may go away in a future version.
 | |
|   </p>
 | |
|   <p>Here are the available variable names. The alternate syntax is listed in
 | |
|   parentheses.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
|   <dl style="margin-left: 25px">
 | |
|     <dt><b>$test</b> (%s)</dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The full path to the test case's source. This is suitable for passing
 | |
|     on the command line as the input to an llvm tool.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>$srcdir</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The source directory from where the "<tt>make check</tt>" was run.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>objdir</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The object directory that corresponds to the <tt>$srcdir</tt>.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>subdir</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>A partial path from the <tt>test</tt> directory that contains the 
 | |
|     sub-directory that contains the test source being executed.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>srcroot</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The root directory of the LLVM src tree.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>objroot</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The root directory of the LLVM object tree. This could be the same
 | |
|     as the srcroot.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>path</b><dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The path to the directory that contains the test case source.  This is 
 | |
|     for locating any supporting files that are not generated by the test, but 
 | |
|     used by the test.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>tmp</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The path to a temporary file name that could be used for this test case.
 | |
|     The file name won't conflict with other test cases. You can append to it if
 | |
|     you need multiple temporaries. This is useful as the destination of some
 | |
|     redirected output.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>target_triplet</b> (%target_triplet)</dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The target triplet that corresponds to the current host machine (the one
 | |
|     running the test cases). This should probably be called "host".<dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>link</b> (%link)</dt> 
 | |
|     <dd>This full link command used to link LLVM executables. This has all the
 | |
|     configured -I, -L and -l options.</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>shlibext</b> (%shlibext)</dt>
 | |
|     <dd>The suffix for the host platforms share library (dll) files. This
 | |
|     includes the period as the first character.</dd>
 | |
|   </dl>
 | |
|   <p>To add more variables, two things need to be changed. First, add a line in
 | |
|   the <tt>test/Makefile</tt> that creates the <tt>site.exp</tt> file. This will
 | |
|   "set" the variable as a global in the site.exp file. Second, in the
 | |
|   <tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt> file, in the substitute proc, add the variable name
 | |
|   to the list of "global" declarations at the beginning of the proc. That's it,
 | |
|   the variable can then be used in test scripts.</p>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
|   
 | |
| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <h3><a name="rtfeatures">Other Features</a></h3>
 | |
| <!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
 | |
| <div>
 | |
|   <p>To make RUN line writing easier, there are several shell scripts located
 | |
|   in the <tt>llvm/test/Scripts</tt> directory. This directory is in the PATH
 | |
|   when running tests, so you can just call these scripts using their name. For
 | |
|   example:</p>
 | |
|   <dl>
 | |
|     <dt><b>ignore</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>This script runs its arguments and then always returns 0. This is useful
 | |
|     in cases where the test needs to cause a tool to generate an error (e.g. to
 | |
|     check the error output). However, any program in a pipeline that returns a
 | |
|     non-zero result will cause the test to fail. This script overcomes that 
 | |
|     issue and nicely documents that the test case is purposefully ignoring the
 | |
|     result code of the tool</dd>
 | |
| 
 | |
|     <dt><b>not</b></dt>
 | |
|     <dd>This script runs its arguments and then inverts the result code from 
 | |
|     it. Zero result codes become 1. Non-zero result codes become 0. This is
 | |
|     useful to invert the result of a grep. For example "not grep X" means
 | |
|     succeed only if you don't find X in the input.</dd>
 | |
|   </dl>
 | |
| 
 | |
|   <p>Sometimes it is necessary to mark a test case as "expected fail" or XFAIL.
 | |
|   You can easily mark a test as XFAIL just by including <tt>XFAIL: </tt> on a
 | |
|   line near the top of the file. This signals that the test case should succeed
 | |
|   if the test fails. Such test cases are counted separately by the testing tool. To
 | |
|   specify an expected fail, use the XFAIL keyword in the comments of the test
 | |
|   program followed by a colon and one or more regular expressions (separated by
 | |
|   a comma). The regular expressions allow you to XFAIL the test conditionally by
 | |
|   host platform. The regular expressions following the : are matched against the
 | |
|   target triplet for the host machine. If there is a match, the test is expected
 | |
|   to fail. If not, the test is expected to succeed. To XFAIL everywhere just
 | |
|   specify <tt>XFAIL: *</tt>. Here is an example of an <tt>XFAIL</tt> line:</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div class="doc_code">
 | |
| <pre>
 | |
| ; XFAIL: darwin,sun
 | |
| </pre>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
|   <p>To make the output more useful, the <tt>llvm_runtest</tt> function wil
 | |
|   scan the lines of the test case for ones that contain a pattern that matches
 | |
|   PR[0-9]+. This is the syntax for specifying a PR (Problem Report) number that
 | |
|   is related to the test case. The number after "PR" specifies the LLVM bugzilla
 | |
|   number. When a PR number is specified, it will be used in the pass/fail
 | |
|   reporting. This is useful to quickly get some context when a test fails.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
|   <p>Finally, any line that contains "END." will cause the special
 | |
|   interpretation of lines to terminate. This is generally done right after the
 | |
|   last RUN: line. This has two side effects: (a) it prevents special
 | |
|   interpretation of lines that are part of the test program, not the
 | |
|   instructions to the test case, and (b) it speeds things up for really big test
 | |
|   cases by avoiding interpretation of the remainder of the file.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!--=========================================================================-->
 | |
| <h2><a name="testsuiteoverview"><tt>test-suite</tt> Overview</a></h2>
 | |
| <!--=========================================================================-->
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>The <tt>test-suite</tt> module contains a number of programs that can be
 | |
| compiled and executed. The <tt>test-suite</tt> includes reference outputs for
 | |
| all of the programs, so that the output of the executed program can be checked
 | |
| for correctness.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p><tt>test-suite</tt> tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource,
 | |
| SingleSource, and External.</p> 
 | |
| 
 | |
| <ul>
 | |
| <li><tt>test-suite/SingleSource</tt>
 | |
| <p>The SingleSource directory contains test programs that are only a single 
 | |
| source file in size.  These are usually small benchmark programs or small 
 | |
| programs that calculate a particular value.  Several such programs are grouped 
 | |
| together in each directory.</p></li>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <li><tt>test-suite/MultiSource</tt>
 | |
| <p>The MultiSource directory contains subdirectories which contain entire 
 | |
| programs with multiple source files.  Large benchmarks and whole applications 
 | |
| go here.</p></li>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <li><tt>test-suite/External</tt>
 | |
| <p>The External directory contains Makefiles for building code that is external
 | |
| to (i.e., not distributed with) LLVM.  The most prominent members of this
 | |
| directory are the SPEC 95 and SPEC 2000 benchmark suites. The <tt>External</tt>
 | |
| directory does not contain these actual tests, but only the Makefiles that know
 | |
| how to properly compile these programs from somewhere else. When
 | |
| using <tt>LNT</tt>, use the <tt>--test-externals</tt> option to include these
 | |
| tests in the results.</p></li>
 | |
| </ul>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!--=========================================================================-->
 | |
| <h2><a name="testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a></h2>
 | |
| <!--=========================================================================-->
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div>
 | |
| <p>The modern way of running the <tt>test-suite</tt> is focused on testing and
 | |
| benchmarking complete compilers using
 | |
| the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/lnt">LNT</a> testing infrastructure.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>For more information on using LNT to execute the <tt>test-suite</tt>, please
 | |
| see the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/lnt/quickstart.html">LNT Quickstart</a>
 | |
| documentation.</p>
 | |
| </div>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <!--=========================================================================-->
 | |
| <h2><a name="testsuitemakefiles"><tt>test-suite</tt> Makefiles</a></h2>
 | |
| <!--=========================================================================-->
 | |
| 
 | |
| <div>
 | |
| <p>Historically, the <tt>test-suite</tt> was executed using a complicated setup
 | |
| of Makefiles. The LNT based approach above is recommended for most users, but
 | |
| there are some testing scenarios which are not supported by the LNT approach. In
 | |
| addition, LNT currently uses the Makefile setup under the covers and so
 | |
| developers who are interested in how LNT works under the hood may want to
 | |
| understand the Makefile based setup.</p>
 | |
| 
 | |
| <p>For more information on the <tt>test-suite</tt> Makefile setup, please see
 | |
| the <a href="TestSuiteMakefileGuide.html">Test Suite Makefile Guide.</a></p>
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