</head>
<body>
-<div class="doc_title">
+<h1>
LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide
-</div>
+</h1>
<ol>
<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
<li><a href="#org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#dejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#regressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
<li><a href="#testsuite">Test suite</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#debuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#quick">Quick start</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#quickdejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
<li><a href="#quicktestsuite">Test suite</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li><a href="#dgstructure">DejaGNU structure</a>
+ <li><a href="#rtstructure">Regression test structure</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#dgcustom">Writing new DejaGNU tests</a></li>
- <li><a href="#dgvars">Variables and substitutions</a></li>
- <li><a href="#dgfeatures">Other features</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#rtcustom">Writing new regression tests</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#rtvars">Variables and substitutions</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#rtfeatures">Other features</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="#testsuitestructure">Test suite structure</a></li>
<li><a href="#testsuiteexternal">Configuring External Tests</a></li>
<li><a href="#testsuitetests">Running different tests</a></li>
<li><a href="#testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a></li>
- <li><a href="#testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for llvm-test</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for test-suite</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li><a href="#nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></li>
</ol>
<div class="doc_author">
- <p>Written by John T. Criswell, <a
- href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/rspencer">Reid Spencer</a>, and Tanya Lattner</p>
+ <p>Written by John T. Criswell, Daniel Dunbar, Reid Spencer, and Tanya Lattner</p>
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="overview">Overview</a></div>
+<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
-<p>This document is the reference manual for the LLVM testing infrastructure. It documents
-the structure of the LLVM testing infrastructure, the tools needed to use it,
-and how to add and run tests.</p>
+<p>This document is the reference manual for the LLVM testing infrastructure. It
+documents the structure of the LLVM testing infrastructure, the tools needed to
+use it, and how to add and run tests.</p>
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></div>
+<h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
-<p>In order to use the LLVM testing infrastructure, you will need all of the software
-required to build LLVM, plus the following:</p>
-
-<dl>
-<dt><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/">DejaGNU</a></dt>
-<dd>The Feature and Regressions tests are organized and run by DejaGNU.</dd>
-<dt><a href="http://expect.nist.gov/">Expect</a></dt>
-<dd>Expect is required by DejaGNU.</dd>
-<dt><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/">tcl</a></dt>
-<dd>Tcl is required by DejaGNU. </dd>
-</dl>
+<p>In order to use the LLVM testing infrastructure, you will need all of the
+software required to build LLVM, as well
+as <a href="http://python.org">Python</a> 2.4 or later.</p>
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a></div>
+<h2><a name="org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
-<p>The LLVM testing infrastructure contains two major categories of tests: code
-fragments and whole programs. Code fragments are referred to as the "DejaGNU
-tests" and are in the <tt>llvm</tt> module in subversion under the
-<tt>llvm/test</tt> directory. The whole programs tests are referred to as the
-"Test suite" and are in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module in subversion.
+<p>The LLVM testing infrastructure contains two major categories of tests:
+regression tests and whole programs. The regression tests are contained inside
+the LLVM repository itself under <tt>llvm/test</tt> and are expected to always
+pass -- they should be run before every commit. The whole programs tests are
+referred to as the "LLVM test suite" and are in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module
+in subversion.
</p>
-</div>
-
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></div>
+<h3><a name="regressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
-<p>Code fragments are small pieces of code that test a specific
-feature of LLVM or trigger a specific bug in LLVM. They are usually
-written in LLVM assembly language, but can be written in other
-languages if the test targets a particular language front end (and the
-appropriate <tt>--with-llvmgcc</tt> options were used
-at <tt>configure</tt> time of the <tt>llvm</tt> module). These tests
-are driven by the DejaGNU testing framework, which is hidden behind a
-few simple makefiles.</p>
+<p>The regression tests are small pieces of code that test a specific feature of
+LLVM or trigger a specific bug in LLVM. They are usually written in LLVM
+assembly language, but can be written in other languages if the test targets a
+particular language front end (and the appropriate <tt>--with-llvmgcc</tt>
+options were used at <tt>configure</tt> time of the <tt>llvm</tt> module). These
+tests are driven by the 'lit' testing tool, which is part of LLVM.</p>
<p>These code fragments are not complete programs. The code generated
from them is never executed to determine correct behavior.</p>
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="testsuite">Test suite</a></div>
+<h3><a name="testsuite">Test suite</a></h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>The test suite contains whole programs, which are pieces of
code which can be compiled and linked into a stand-alone program that can be
</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h3><a name="debuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></h3>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+
+<div>
+
+<p>The test suite contains tests to check quality of debugging information.
+The test are written in C based languages or in LLVM assembly language. </p>
+
+<p>These tests are compiled and run under a debugger. The debugger output
+is checked to validate of debugging information. See README.txt in the
+test suite for more information . This test suite is located in the
+<tt>debuginfo-tests</tt> Subversion module. </p>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="quick">Quick start</a></div>
+<h2><a name="quick">Quick start</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
- <p>The tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The
- DejaGNU tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory
+ <p>The tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The regressions
+ tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory
<tt>llvm/test</tt> (so you get these tests for free with the main llvm tree).
The more comprehensive test suite that includes whole
programs in C and C++ is in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module. This module should
be checked out to the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory (don't use another name
-then the default "test-suite", for then the test suite will be run every time
+than the default "test-suite", for then the test suite will be run every time
you run <tt>make</tt> in the main <tt>llvm</tt> directory).
When you <tt>configure</tt> the <tt>llvm</tt> module,
the <tt>test-suite</tt> directory will be automatically configured.
Alternatively, you can configure the <tt>test-suite</tt> module manually.</p>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="quickdejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></div>
+<h3><a name="quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
+<div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<p>To run all of the simple tests in LLVM using DejaGNU, use the master Makefile
- in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory:</p>
+<p>To run all of the LLVM regression tests, use master Makefile in
+ the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory:</p>
<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
</pre>
</div>
-<p>To run only a subdirectory of tests in <tt>llvm/test</tt> using DejaGNU (ie.
-Transforms), just set the TESTSUITE variable to the path of the
-subdirectory (relative to <tt>llvm/test</tt>):</p>
+<p>If you have <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang</a> checked out and built,
+you can run the LLVM and Clang tests simultaneously using:</p>
+
+<p>or</p>
<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
-% gmake TESTSUITE=Transforms check
+% gmake check-all
</pre>
</div>
-<p><b>Note: If you are running the tests with <tt>objdir != subdir</tt>, you
-must have run the complete testsuite before you can specify a
-subdirectory.</b></p>
+<p>To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
+<tt>VG=1</tt> to the commands above, e.g.:</p>
-<p>To run only a single test, set <tt>TESTONE</tt> to its path (relative to
-<tt>llvm/test</tt>) and make the <tt>check-one</tt> target:</p>
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+% gmake check VG=1
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>To run individual tests or subsets of tests, you can use the 'llvm-lit'
+script which is built as part of LLVM. For example, to run the
+'Integer/BitCast.ll' test by itself you can run:</p>
<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
-% gmake TESTONE=Feature/basictest.ll check-one
+% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/Integer/BitCast.ll
</pre>
</div>
-<p>To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
-<tt>VG=1</tt> to the commands above, e.g.:</p>
+<p>or to run all of the ARM CodeGen tests:</p>
<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
-% gmake check VG=1
+% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM
</pre>
</div>
+<p>For more information on using the 'lit' tool, see 'llvm-lit --help' or the
+'lit' man page.</p>
+
+</div>
+
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="quicktestsuite">Test suite</a></div>
+<h3><a name="quicktestsuite">Test suite</a></h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div>
+
<p>To run the comprehensive test suite (tests that compile and execute whole
programs), first checkout and setup the <tt>test-suite</tt> module:</p>
</div>
<p>where <tt>$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt> is the directory where
-you <em>installed</em> llvm-gcc, not it's src or obj
+you <em>installed</em> llvm-gcc, not its src or obj
dir. The <tt>--with-llvmgccdir</tt> option assumes that
the <tt>llvm-gcc-4.2</tt> module was configured with
<tt>--program-prefix=llvm-</tt>, and therefore that the C and C++
</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h3><a name="quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></h3>
+<div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div>
+
+<p> To run debugging information tests simply checkout the tests inside
+clang/test directory. </p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+%cd clang/test
+% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/debuginfo-tests/trunk debuginfo-tests
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+<p> These tests are already set up to run as part of clang regression tests.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="dgstructure">DejaGNU structure</a></div>
+<h2><a name="rtstructure">Regression test structure</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
- <p>The LLVM DejaGNU tests are driven by DejaGNU together with GNU Make and are
- located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.
+<div>
+ <p>The LLVM regression tests are driven by 'lit' and are located in
+ the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.
<p>This directory contains a large array of small tests
that exercise various features of LLVM and to ensure that regressions do not
<li><tt>Verifier</tt>: tests the IR verifier.</li>
</ul>
-</div>
-
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgcustom">Writing new DejaGNU tests</a></div>
+<h3><a name="rtcustom">Writing new regression tests</a></h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
- <p>The DejaGNU structure is very simple, but does require some information to
- be set. This information is gathered via <tt>configure</tt> and is written
- to a file, <tt>site.exp</tt> in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. The <tt>llvm/test</tt>
- Makefile does this work for you.</p>
-
- <p>In order for DejaGNU to work, each directory of tests must have a
- <tt>dg.exp</tt> file. DejaGNU looks for this file to determine how to run the
- tests. This file is just a Tcl script and it can do anything you want, but
- we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a
+<div>
+ <p>The regression test structure is very simple, but does require some
+ information to be set. This information is gathered via <tt>configure</tt> and
+ is written to a file, <tt>lit.site.cfg</tt>
+ in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. The <tt>llvm/test</tt> Makefile does this work for
+ you.</p>
+
+ <p>In order for the regression tests to work, each directory of tests must
+ have a <tt>dg.exp</tt> file. Lit looks for this file to determine how to
+ run the tests. This file is just a Tcl script and it can do anything you want,
+ but we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a
directory of tests, just copy <tt>dg.exp</tt> from another directory to get
- running. The standard <tt>dg.exp</tt> simply loads a Tcl
- library (<tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) and calls the <tt>llvm_runtests</tt>
- function defined in that library with a list of file names to run. The names
- are obtained by using Tcl's glob command. Any directory that contains only
+ running. The standard <tt>dg.exp</tt> simply loads a Tcl library
+ (<tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) and calls the <tt>llvm_runtests</tt> function
+ defined in that library with a list of file names to run. The names are
+ obtained by using Tcl's glob command. Any directory that contains only
directories does not need the <tt>dg.exp</tt> file.</p>
- <p>The <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function lookas at each file that is passed to
- it and gathers any lines together that match "RUN:". This are the "RUN" lines
+ <p>The <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function looks at each file that is passed to
+ it and gathers any lines together that match "RUN:". These are the "RUN" lines
that specify how the test is to be run. So, each test script must contain
RUN lines if it is to do anything. If there are no RUN lines, the
<tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function will issue an error and the test will
shell. Consequently the syntax differs from normal shell script syntax in a
few ways. You can specify as many RUN lines as needed.</p>
+ <p>lit performs substitution on each RUN line to replace LLVM tool
+ names with the full paths to the executable built for each tool (in
+ $(LLVM_OBJ_ROOT)/$(BuildMode)/bin). This ensures that lit does not
+ invoke any stray LLVM tools in the user's path during testing.</p>
+
<p>Each RUN line is executed on its own, distinct from other lines unless
its last character is <tt>\</tt>. This continuation character causes the RUN
line to be concatenated with the next one. In this way you can build up long
<p>There are some quoting rules that you must pay attention to when writing
your RUN lines. In general nothing needs to be quoted. Tcl won't strip off any
- ' or " so they will get passed to the invoked program. For example:</p>
+ quote characters so they will get passed to the invoked program. For
+ example:</p>
<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgvars">Variables and substitutions</a></div>
+<h3><a name="FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></h3>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+
+<div>
+
+<p>A powerful feature of the RUN: lines is that it allows any arbitrary commands
+ to be executed as part of the test harness. While standard (portable) unix
+ tools like 'grep' work fine on run lines, as you see above, there are a lot
+ of caveats due to interaction with Tcl syntax, and we want to make sure the
+ run lines are portable to a wide range of systems. Another major problem is
+ that grep is not very good at checking to verify that the output of a tools
+ contains a series of different output in a specific order. The FileCheck
+ tool was designed to help with these problems.</p>
+
+<p>FileCheck (whose basic command line arguments are described in <a
+ href="http://llvm.org/cmds/FileCheck.html">the FileCheck man page</a> is
+ designed to read a file to check from standard input, and the set of things
+ to verify from a file specified as a command line argument. A simple example
+ of using FileCheck from a RUN line looks like this:</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+; 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,
+lets 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) {
+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
+}
+
+define void @inc4(i64* %p) {
+entry:
+; <b>CHECK: inc4:</b>
+; <b>CHECK: incq</b>
+ %0 = tail call i64 @llvm.atomic.load.add.i64.p0i64(i64* %p, i64 1)
+ 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>
+
+<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,
+that would not count: "grep subl" matches if subl exists anywhere in the
+file.</p>
+
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<h4>
+ <a name="FileCheck-check-prefix">The FileCheck -check-prefix option</a>
+</h4>
+
+<div>
+
+<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>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -mtriple=i686-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \
+; RUN: | <b>FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X32</b>
+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llc -mtriple=x86_64-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \
+; RUN: | <b>FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X64</b>
+
+define <4 x i32> @pinsrd_1(i32 %s, <4 x i32> %tmp) nounwind {
+ %tmp1 = insertelement <4 x i32> %tmp, i32 %s, i32 1
+ ret <4 x i32> %tmp1
+; <b>X32:</b> pinsrd_1:
+; <b>X32:</b> pinsrd $1, 4(%esp), %xmm0
+
+; <b>X64:</b> pinsrd_1:
+; <b>X64:</b> pinsrd $1, %edi, %xmm0
+}
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>In this case, we're testing that we get the expected code generation with
+both 32-bit and 64-bit code generation.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<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>
+
+<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>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h4>
+ <a name="FileCheck-Variables">FileCheck Variables</a>
+</h4>
+
+<div>
+
+<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>
+
+</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.
<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>prcontext</b> (%prcontext)</dt>
- <dd>Path to the prcontext tcl script that prints some context around a
- line that matches a pattern. This isn't strictly necessary as the test suite
- is run with its PATH altered to include the test/Scripts directory where
- the prcontext script is located. Note that this script is similar to
- <tt>grep -C</tt> but you should use the <tt>prcontext</tt> script because
- not all platforms support <tt>grep -C</tt>.</dd>
-
<dt><b>llvmgcc</b> (%llvmgcc)</dt>
<dd>The full path to the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> executable as specified in the
configured LLVM environment</dd>
<dd>The full path to the <tt>llvm-gxx</tt> executable as specified in the
configured LLVM environment</dd>
- <dt><b>llvmgcc_version</b> (%llvmgcc_version)</dt>
- <dd>The full version number of the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> executable.</dd>
-
- <dt><b>llvmgccmajvers</b> (%llvmgccmajvers)</dt>
- <dd>The major version number of the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> executable.</dd>
-
<dt><b>gccpath</b></dt>
<dd>The full path to the C compiler used to <i>build </i> LLVM. Note that
this might not be gcc.</dd>
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgfeatures">Other Features</a></div>
+<h3><a name="rtfeatures">Other Features</a></h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<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
</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
+ 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 DejaGnu. To
+ 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 or llvmgcc version number 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>. When matching
- the llvm-gcc version, you can specify the major (e.g. 3) or full version
- (i.e. 3.4) number. Here is an example of an <tt>XFAIL</tt> line:</p>
+ 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,llvmgcc4
+; XFAIL: darwin,sun
</pre>
</div>
</div>
+</div>
+
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="testsuitestructure">Test suite
-Structure</a></div>
+<h2><a name="testsuitestructure">Test suite Structure</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>The <tt>test-suite</tt> module contains a number of programs that can be compiled
with LLVM and executed. These programs are compiled using the native compiler
test using the <tt>TEST</tt> variable to change what tests or run on the
selected programs (see below for more info).</p>
-<p>In addition for testing correctness, the <tt>llvm-test</tt> directory also
+<p>In addition for testing correctness, the <tt>test-suite</tt> directory also
performs timing tests of various LLVM optimizations. It also records
compilation times for the compilers and the JIT. This information can be
used to compare the effectiveness of LLVM's optimizations and code
generation.</p>
-<p><tt>llvm-test</tt> tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource,
+<p><tt>test-suite</tt> tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource,
SingleSource, and External.</p>
<ul>
-<li><tt>llvm-test/SingleSource</tt>
+<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>llvm-test/MultiSource</tt>
+<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>llvm-test/External</tt>
+<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. The presence and
-location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-test
+location of these external programs is configured by the test-suite
<tt>configure</tt> script.</p></li>
</ul>
organizations should be relatively self explanatory.</p>
<p>Some tests are known to fail. Some are bugs that we have not fixed yet;
-others are features that we haven't added yet (or may never add). In DejaGNU,
-the result for such tests will be XFAIL (eXpected FAILure). In this way, you
-can tell the difference between an expected and unexpected failure.</p>
+others are features that we haven't added yet (or may never add). In the
+regression tests, the result for such tests will be XFAIL (eXpected FAILure).
+In this way, you can tell the difference between an expected and unexpected
+failure.</p>
<p>The tests in the test suite have no such feature at this time. If the
test passes, only warnings and other miscellaneous output will be generated. If
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a></div>
+<h2><a name="testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>First, all tests are executed within the LLVM object directory tree. They
<i>are not</i> executed inside of the LLVM source tree. This is because the
have the suite checked out and configured, you don't need to do it again (unless
the test code or configure script changes).</p>
-</div>
-
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="testsuiteexternal">Configuring External Tests</a></div>
+<h3>
+ <a name="testsuiteexternal">Configuring External Tests</a>
+</h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>In order to run the External tests in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
module, you must specify <i>--with-externals</i>. This
must be done during the <em>re-configuration</em> step (see above),
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="testsuitetests">Running different tests</a></div>
+<h3>
+ <a name="testsuitetests">Running different tests</a>
+</h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>In addition to the regular "whole program" tests, the <tt>test-suite</tt>
module also provides a mechanism for compiling the programs in different ways.
If the variable TEST is defined on the <tt>gmake</tt> command line, the test system will
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a></div>
+<h3>
+ <a name="testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a>
+</h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>There are a number of ways to run the tests and generate output. The most
simple one is simply running <tt>gmake</tt> with no arguments. This will
compile and run all programs in the tree using a number of different methods
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for the test suite</a></div>
+<h3>
+ <a name="testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for the test suite</a>
+</h3>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_text">
+<div>
<p>Assuming you can run the test suite, (e.g. "<tt>gmake TEST=nightly report</tt>"
should work), it is really easy to run optimizations or code generator
will tally counts of things you care about.</p>
<p>Following this, you can set up a test and a report that collects these and
-formats them for easy viewing. This consists of two files, an
+formats them for easy viewing. This consists of two files, a
"<tt>test-suite/TEST.XXX.Makefile</tt>" fragment (where XXX is the name of your
-test) and an "<tt>llvm-test/TEST.XXX.report</tt>" file that indicates how to
+test) and a "<tt>test-suite/TEST.XXX.report</tt>" file that indicates how to
format the output into a table. There are many example reports of various
levels of sophistication included with the test suite, and the framework is very
general.</p>
</div>
-
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></div>
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<p>
-The <a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">LLVM Nightly Testers</a>
-automatically check out an LLVM tree, build it, run the "nightly"
-program test (described above), run all of the DejaGNU tests,
-delete the checked out tree, and then submit the results to
-<a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">http://llvm.org/nightlytest/</a>.
-After test results are submitted to
-<a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">http://llvm.org/nightlytest/</a>,
-they are processed and displayed on the tests page. An email to
-<a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-testresults/">
-llvm-testresults@cs.uiuc.edu</a> summarizing the results is also generated.
-This testing scheme is designed to ensure that programs don't break as well
-as keep track of LLVM's progress over time.</p>
-
-<p>If you'd like to set up an instance of the nightly tester to run on your
-machine, take a look at the comments at the top of the
-<tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt> file. If you decide to set up a nightly tester
-please choose a unique nickname and invoke <tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt>
-with the "-nickname [yournickname]" command line option.
-
-<p>You can create a shell script to encapsulate the running of the script.
-The optimized x86 Linux nightly test is run from just such a script:</p>
-
-<div class="doc_code">
-<pre>
-#!/bin/bash
-BASE=/proj/work/llvm/nightlytest
-export BUILDDIR=$BASE/build
-export WEBDIR=$BASE/testresults
-export LLVMGCCDIR=/proj/work/llvm/cfrontend/install
-export PATH=/proj/install/bin:$LLVMGCCDIR/bin:$PATH
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proj/install/lib
-cd $BASE
-cp /proj/work/llvm/llvm/utils/NewNightlyTest.pl .
-nice ./NewNightlyTest.pl -nice -release -verbose -parallel -enable-linscan \
- -nickname NightlyTester -noexternals > output.log 2>&1
-</pre>
-</div>
-
-<p>It is also possible to specify the the location your nightly test results
-are submitted. You can do this by passing the command line option
-"-submit-server [server_address]" and "-submit-script [script_on_server]" to
-<tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt>. For example, to submit to the llvm.org
-nightly test results page, you would invoke the nightly test script with
-"-submit-server llvm.org -submit-script /nightlytest/NightlyTestAccept.cgi".
-If these options are not specified, the nightly test script sends the results
-to the llvm.org nightly test results page.</p>
-
-<p>Take a look at the <tt>NewNightlyTest.pl</tt> file to see what all of the
-flags and strings do. If you start running the nightly tests, please let us
-know. Thanks!</p>
-
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