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-<div class="doc_title">
- LLVM Test Suite Guide
-</div>
+<h1>
+ LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide
+</h1>
<ol>
<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
- <li><a href="#Requirements">Requirements</a></li>
- <li><a href="#quick">Quick Start</a></li>
- <li><a href="#org">LLVM Test Suite Organization</a>
+ <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#codefragments">Code Fragments</a></li>
- <li><a href="#wholeprograms">Whole Programs</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#regressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#testsuite"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></li>
+ <li><a href="#debuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
- <li><a href="#tree">LLVM Test Suite Tree</a></li>
- <li><a href="#dgstructure">DejaGNU Structure</a></li>
- <li><a href="#progstructure"><tt>llvm-test</tt> Structure</a></li>
- <li><a href="#run">Running the LLVM Tests</a>
+ <li><a href="#quick">Quick start</a>
<ul>
- <li><a href="#customtest">Writing custom tests for llvm-test</a></li>
- </ul>
+ <li><a href="#quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><a href="#rtstructure">Regression test structure</a>
+ <ul>
+ <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="#testsuiteoverview"><tt>test-suite</tt> Overview</a>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="#testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#testsuitemakefiles"><tt>test-suite</tt> Makefiles</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 test suite. It documents
-the structure of the LLVM test suite, 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">
-
-<p>In order to use the LLVM test suite, 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>
-
-<dt><a href="http://www.netlib.org/f2c">F2C</a></dt>
-<dd>For now, LLVM does not have a Fortran front-end, but using F2C, we can run
-Fortran benchmarks. F2C support must be enabled via <tt>configure</tt> if not
-installed in a standard place. F2C requires three items: the <tt>f2c</tt>
-executable, <tt>f2c.h</tt> to compile the generated code, and <tt>libf2c.a</tt>
-to link generated code. By default, given an F2C directory <tt>$DIR</tt>, the
-configure script will search <tt>$DIR/bin</tt> for <tt>f2c</tt>,
-<tt>$DIR/include</tt> for <tt>f2c.h</tt>, and <tt>$DIR/lib</tt> for
-<tt>libf2c.a</tt>. The default <tt>$DIR</tt> values are: <tt>/usr</tt>,
-<tt>/usr/local</tt>, <tt>/sw</tt>, and <tt>/opt</tt>. If you installed F2C in a
-different location, you must tell <tt>configure</tt>:
+<div>
-<ul>
-<li><tt>./configure --with-f2c=$DIR</tt><br>
-This will specify a new <tt>$DIR</tt> for the above-described search
-process. This will only work if the binary, header, and library are in their
-respective subdirectories of <tt>$DIR</tt>.</li>
+<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>
+
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<h2><a name="org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a></h2>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+
+<div>
+
+<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.</p>
+
+<p>The whole programs tests are referred to as the "LLVM test suite" (or
+"test-suite") and are in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module in subversion. For
+historical reasons, these tests are also referred to as the "nightly tests" in
+places, which is less ambiguous than "test-suite" and remains in use although we
+run them much more often than nightly.</p>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h3><a name="regressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+
+<div>
+
+<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>
-<li><tt>./configure --with-f2c-bin=/binary/path --with-f2c-inc=/include/path
---with-f2c-lib=/lib/path</tt><br>
-This allows you to specify the F2C components separately. Note: if you choose
-this route, you MUST specify all three components, and you need to only specify
-<em>directories</em> where the files are located; do NOT include the
-filenames themselves on the <tt>configure</tt> line.</li>
-</ul></dd>
-</dl>
+<p>These code fragments are not complete programs. The code generated
+from them is never executed to determine correct behavior.</p>
-<p>Darwin (Mac OS X) developers can simplify the installation of Expect and tcl
-by using fink. <tt>fink install expect</tt> will install both. Alternatively,
-Darwinports users can use <tt>sudo port install expect</tt> to install Expect
-and tcl.</p>
+<p>These code fragment tests are located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt>
+directory.</p>
+
+<p>Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing
+just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed
+somewhere underneath this directory. In most cases, this will be a small
+piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual
+application or benchmark.</p>
+
+</div>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h3><a name="testsuite"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></h3>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+
+<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 executed. These
+programs are generally written in high level languages such as C or C++.</p>
+
+<p>These programs are compiled using a user specified compiler and set of flags,
+and then executed to capture the program output and timing information. The
+output of these programs is compared to a reference output to ensure that the
+program is being compiled correctly.</p>
+
+<p>In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as
+a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the
+programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and
+generates code.</p>
+
+<p>The test-suite is located in the <tt>test-suite</tt> Subversion module.</p>
+
+</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">
-
-<p>The tests are located in two separate CVS modules. The basic feature and
-regression tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory
-<tt>llvm/test</tt>. A more comprehensive test suite that includes whole
-programs in C and C++ is in the <tt>llvm-test</tt> module. This module should
-be checked out to the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory. When you
-<tt>configure</tt> the <tt>llvm</tt> module, the <tt>llvm-test</tt> module
-will be automatically configured. Alternatively, you can configure the
- <tt>llvm-test</tt> module manually.</p>
-<p>To run all of the simple tests in LLVM using DejaGNU, use the master Makefile
- in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory:</p>
+<div>
+
+ <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). Use "make check-all" to run the regression tests after building
+ LLVM.</p>
+
+ <p>The more comprehensive test suite that includes whole programs in C and C++
+ is in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
+ module. See <a href="#testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a>
+ for more information on running these tests.</p>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h3><a name="quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
+<div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<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>
% gmake -C llvm/test
</pre>
-or<br>
-<pre>
-% gmake check
-</pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>or</p>
-<p>To run only a subdirectory of tests in llvm/test using DejaGNU (ie.
-Regression/Transforms), just set the TESTSUITE variable to the path of the
-subdirectory (relative to <tt>llvm/test</tt>):</p>
+<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
-% gmake -C llvm/test TESTSUITE=Regression/Transforms
+% gmake check
</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>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>To run the comprehensive test suite (tests that compile and execute whole
-programs), run the <tt>llvm-test</tt> tests:</p>
+<p>or</p>
+<div class="doc_code">
<pre>
-% cd llvm/projects
-% cvs co llvm-test
-% cd llvm-test
-% ./configure --with-llvmsrc=$LLVM_SRC_ROOT --with-llvmobj=$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT
-% gmake
+% gmake check-all
</pre>
-
</div>
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="org">LLVM Test Suite Organization</a></div>
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<p>The LLVM test suite contains two major categories of tests: code
-fragments and whole programs. Code fragments are in the <tt>llvm</tt> module
-under the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory. The whole programs
-test suite is in the <tt>llvm-test</tt> module under the main directory.</p>
+<p>To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
+<tt>VG=1</tt> to the commands above, e.g.:</p>
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+% gmake check VG=1
+</pre>
</div>
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="codefragments">Code Fragments</a></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_text">
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/Integer/BitCast.ll
+</pre>
+</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.</p>
+<p>or to run all of the ARM CodeGen tests:</p>
-<p>Code fragments are not complete programs, and they are never executed to
-determine correct behavior.</p>
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM
+</pre>
+</div>
-<p>These code fragment tests are located in the <tt>llvm/test/Features</tt> and
-<tt>llvm/test/Regression</tt> directories.</p>
+<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="wholeprograms">Whole Programs</a></div>
+<h3><a name="quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></h3>
+<div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<p> To run debugging information tests simply checkout the tests inside
+clang/test directory. </p>
-<p>Whole Programs are pieces of code which can be compiled and linked into a
-stand-alone program that can be executed. These programs are generally written
-in high level languages such as C or C++, but sometimes they are written
-straight in LLVM assembly.</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 programs are compiled and then executed using several different
-methods (native compiler, LLVM C backend, LLVM JIT, LLVM native code generation,
-etc). The output of these programs is compared to ensure that LLVM is compiling
-the program correctly.</p>
+<p> These tests are already set up to run as part of clang regression tests.</p>
-<p>In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as
-a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the
-programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and
-generates code.</p>
+</div>
-<p>All "whole program" tests are located in the <tt>llvm-test</tt> CVS
-module.</p>
+</div>
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="tree">LLVM Test Suite Tree</a></div>
+<h2><a name="rtstructure">Regression test structure</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
+<div>
+ <p>The LLVM regression tests are driven by 'lit' and are located in
+ the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<p>Each type of test in the LLVM test suite has its own directory. The major
-subtrees of the test suite directory tree are as follows:</p>
-
-<ul>
- <li><tt>llvm/test</tt>
<p>This directory contains a large array of small tests
that exercise various features of LLVM and to ensure that regressions do not
occur. The directory is broken into several sub-directories, each focused on
- a particular area of LLVM. A few of the important ones are:<ul>
+ a particular area of LLVM. A few of the important ones are:</p>
+
+ <ul>
<li><tt>Analysis</tt>: checks Analysis passes.</li>
<li><tt>Archive</tt>: checks the Archive library.</li>
<li><tt>Assembler</tt>: checks Assembly reader/writer functionality.</li>
- <li><tt>Bytecode</tt>: checks Bytecode reader/writer functionality.</li>
+ <li><tt>Bitcode</tt>: checks Bitcode reader/writer functionality.</li>
<li><tt>CodeGen</tt>: checks code generation and each target.</li>
<li><tt>Features</tt>: checks various features of the LLVM language.</li>
- <li><tt>Linker</tt>: tests bytecode linking.</li>
+ <li><tt>Linker</tt>: tests bitcode linking.</li>
<li><tt>Transforms</tt>: tests each of the scalar, IPO, and utility
transforms to ensure they make the right transformations.</li>
<li><tt>Verifier</tt>: tests the IR verifier.</li>
- </ul></p>
- <p>Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing
- just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed
- somewhere underneath this directory. In most cases, this will be a small
- piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual
- application or benchmark.</p></li>
-
-<li><tt>llvm-test</tt>
-<p>The <tt>llvm-test</tt> CVS module contains programs that can be compiled
-with LLVM and executed. These programs are compiled using the native compiler
-and various LLVM backends. The output from the program compiled with the
-native compiler is assumed correct; the results from the other programs are
-compared to the native program output and pass if they match.</p>
-
-<p>In addition for testing correctness, the <tt>llvm-test</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></li>
-
-<li><tt>llvm-test/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>
-<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>
-<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 presence and
-location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-test
-<tt>configure</tt> script.</p></li>
-
-</ul>
+ </ul>
-</div>
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="dgstructure">DejaGNU Structure</a></div>
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
- <p>The LLVM test suite is partially driven by DejaGNU and partially driven by
- GNU Make. Specifically, the Features and Regression tests are all driven by
- DejaGNU. The <tt>llvm-test</tt> module is currently driven by a set of
- Makefiles.</p>
-
- <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. It 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
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<h3><a name="rtcustom">Writing new regression tests</a></h3>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<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>lit.local.cfg</tt> file. Lit looks for this file to determine how
+ to run the tests. This file is just Python code and thus is very flexible,
+ but we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a
+ directory of tests, just copy <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> from another directory to
+ get running. The standard <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> simply specifies which files
+ to look in for tests. Any directory that contains only directories does not
+ need the <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> file. Read the
+ <a href="http://llvm.org/cmds/lit.html">Lit documentation</a> for more
+ information. </p>
+
+ <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
pipelines of commands without making huge line lengths. The lines ending in
<tt>\</tt> are concatenated until a RUN line that doesn't end in <tt>\</tt> is
- found. This concatenated set or RUN lines then constitutes one execution.
+ found. This concatenated set of RUN lines then constitutes one execution.
Tcl will substitute variables and arrange for the pipeline to be executed. If
any process in the pipeline fails, the entire line (and test case) fails too.
</p>
<p> Below is an example of legal RUN lines in a <tt>.ll</tt> file:</p>
- <pre>
- ; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llvm-dis > %t1
- ; RUN: llvm-dis < %s.bc-13 > %t2
- ; RUN: diff %t1 %t2
- </pre>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llvm-dis > %t1
+; RUN: llvm-dis < %s.bc-13 > %t2
+; RUN: diff %t1 %t2
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+ <p>As with a Unix shell, the RUN: lines permit pipelines and I/O redirection
+ to be used. However, the usage is slightly different than for Bash. To check
+ what's legal, see the documentation for the
+ <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/exec.htm#M2">Tcl exec</a>
+ command and the
+ <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl26.html">tutorial</a>.
+ The major differences are:</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>You can't do <tt>2>&1</tt>. That will cause Tcl to write to a
+ file named <tt>&1</tt>. Usually this is done to get stderr to go through
+ a pipe. You can do that in tcl with <tt>|&</tt> so replace this idiom:
+ <tt>... 2>&1 | grep</tt> with <tt>... |& grep</tt></li>
+ <li>You can only redirect to a file, not to another descriptor and not from
+ a here document.</li>
+ <li>tcl supports redirecting to open files with the @ syntax but you
+ shouldn't use that here.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <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
+ quote characters so they will get passed to the invoked program. For
+ example:</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+... | grep 'find this string'
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+ <p>This will fail because the ' characters are passed to grep. This would
+ instruction grep to look for <tt>'find</tt> in the files <tt>this</tt> and
+ <tt>string'</tt>. To avoid this use curly braces to tell Tcl that it should
+ treat everything enclosed as one value. So our example would become:</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+... | grep {find this string}
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+ <p>Additionally, the characters <tt>[</tt> and <tt>]</tt> are treated
+ specially by Tcl. They tell Tcl to interpret the content as a command to
+ execute. Since these characters are often used in regular expressions this can
+ have disastrous results and cause the entire test run in a directory to fail.
+ For example, a common idiom is to look for some basicblock number:</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+... | grep bb[2-8]
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+ <p>This, however, will cause Tcl to fail because its going to try to execute
+ a program named "2-8". Instead, what you want is this:</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+... | grep {bb\[2-8\]}
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+ <p>Finally, if you need to pass the <tt>\</tt> character down to a program,
+ then it must be doubled. This is another Tcl special character. So, suppose
+ you had:
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+... | grep 'i32\*'
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+ <p>This will fail to match what you want (a pointer to i32). First, the
+ <tt>'</tt> do not get stripped off. Second, the <tt>\</tt> gets stripped off
+ by Tcl so what grep sees is: <tt>'i32*'</tt>. That's not likely to match
+ anything. To resolve this you must use <tt>\\</tt> and the <tt>{}</tt>, like
+ this:</p>
+
+<div class="doc_code">
+<pre>
+... | grep {i32\\*}
+</pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>If your system includes GNU <tt>grep</tt>, make sure
+that <tt>GREP_OPTIONS</tt> is not set in your environment. Otherwise,
+you may get invalid results (both false positives and false
+negatives).</p>
+
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgvars">Vars And Substitutions</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<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,
+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) {
+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>
+
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<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.
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>
- Here are the available variable names. The alternate syntax is listed in
+ <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>
+ <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>llvmlibsdir</b> (%llvmlibsdir)</dt>
- <dd>The directory where the LLVM libraries are located.</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>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>
- <dt><b>llvmgxx</b> (%llvmgxx)</dt>
- <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>
- <dt><b>gxxpath</b></dt>
- <dd>The full path to the C++ compiler used to <i>build </i> LLVM. Note that
- this might not be g++.</dd>
- <dt><b>compile_c</b> (%compile_c)</dt>
- <dd>The full command line used to compile LLVM C source code. This has all
- the configured -I, -D and optimization options.</dd>
- <dt><b>compile_cxx</b> (%compile_cxx)</dt>
- <dd>The full command used to compile LLVM C++ source code. This has
- all the configured -I, -D and optimization options.</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>
</div>
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgfeatures">Other Features</a></div>
-<div class="doc_text">
+<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. For example:</p>
+ 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
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
</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>
- <pre>
- ; XFAIL: darwin,sun,llvmgcc4
- </pre>
+ 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 numer after "PR" specifies the LLVM bugzilla
+ 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>
</div>
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="progstructure"><tt>llvm-test</tt>
-Structure</a></div>
-<!--=========================================================================-->
-
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<p>As mentioned previously, the <tt>llvm-test</tt> module provides three types
-of tests: MultiSource, SingleSource, and External. Each tree is then subdivided
-into several categories, including applications, benchmarks, regression tests,
-code that is strange grammatically, etc. These organizations should be
-relatively self explanatory.</p>
-
-<p>In addition to the regular "whole program" tests, the <tt>llvm-test</tt>
-module also provides a mechanism for compiling the programs in different ways.
-If the variable TEST is defined on the gmake command line, the test system will
-include a Makefile named <tt>TEST.<value of TEST variable>.Makefile</tt>.
-This Makefile can modify build rules to yield different results.</p>
-
-<p>For example, the LLVM nightly tester uses <tt>TEST.nightly.Makefile</tt> to
-create the nightly test reports. To run the nightly tests, run <tt>gmake
-TEST=nightly</tt>.</p>
-
-<p>There are several TEST Makefiles available in the tree. Some of them are
-designed for internal LLVM research and will not work outside of the LLVM
-research group. They may still be valuable, however, as a guide to writing your
-own TEST Makefile for any optimization or analysis passes that you develop with
-LLVM.</p>
-
-<p>Note, when configuring the <tt>llvm-test</tt> module, you might want to
-specify the following configuration options:</p>
-<dl>
- <dt><i>--enable-spec2000</i>
- <dt><i>--enable-spec2000=<<tt>directory</tt>></i>
- <dd>
- Enable the use of SPEC2000 when testing LLVM. This is disabled by default
- (unless <tt>configure</tt> finds SPEC2000 installed). By specifying
- <tt>directory</tt>, you can tell configure where to find the SPEC2000
- benchmarks. If <tt>directory</tt> is left unspecified, <tt>configure</tt>
- uses the default value
- <tt>/home/vadve/shared/benchmarks/speccpu2000/benchspec</tt>.
- <p>
- <dt><i>--enable-spec95</i>
- <dt><i>--enable-spec95=<<tt>directory</tt>></i>
- <dd>
- Enable the use of SPEC95 when testing LLVM. It is similar to the
- <i>--enable-spec2000</i> option.
- <p>
- <dt><i>--enable-povray</i>
- <dt><i>--enable-povray=<<tt>directory</tt>></i>
- <dd>
- Enable the use of Povray as an external test. Versions of Povray written
- in C should work. This option is similar to the <i>--enable-spec2000</i>
- option.
-</dl>
</div>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="run">Running the LLVM Tests</a></div>
+<h2><a name="testsuiteoverview"><tt>test-suite</tt> Overview</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<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
-test suite creates temporary files during execution.</p>
-
-<p>The master Makefile in llvm/test is capable of running only the DejaGNU
-driven tests. By default, it will run all of these tests.</p>
-
-<p>To run only the DejaGNU driven tests, run <tt>gmake</tt> at the
-command line in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. To run a specific directory of tests, use
-the TESTSUITE variable.
-</p>
-
-<p>For example, to run the Regression tests, type
-<tt>gmake TESTSUITE=Regression</tt> in <tt>llvm/tests</tt>.</p>
-
-<p>Note that there are no Makefiles in <tt>llvm/test/Features</tt> and
-<tt>llvm/test/Regression</tt>. You must use DejaGNU from the <tt>llvm/test</tt>
-directory to run them.</p>
-
-<p>To run the <tt>llvm-test</tt> suite, you need to use the following steps:
-</p>
-<ol>
- <li>cd into the llvm/projects directory</li>
- <li>check out the <tt>llvm-test</tt> module with:<br/>
- <tt>cvs -d :pserver:anon@llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm co -PR llvm-test</tt><br>
- This will get the test suite into <tt>llvm/projects/llvm-test</tt></li>
- <li>configure the test suite. You can do this one of two ways:
- <ol>
- <li>Use the regular llvm configure:<br/>
- <tt>cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT ; $LLVM_SRC_ROOT/configure</tt><br/>
- This will ensure that the <tt>projects/llvm-test</tt> directory is also
- properly configured.</li>
- <li>Use the <tt>configure</tt> script found in the <tt>llvm-test</tt> source
- directory:<br/>
- <tt>$LLVM_SRC_ROOT/projects/llvm-test/configure
- --with-llvmsrc=$LLVM_SRC_ROOT --with-llvmobj=$LLVM_OBJ_ROOT</tt>
- </li>
- </ol>
- <li>gmake</li>
-</ol>
-<p>Note that the second and third steps only need to be done once. After you
-have the suite checked out and configured, you don't need to do it again (unless
-the test code or configure script changes).</p>
-
-<p>To make a specialized test (use one of the
-<tt>llvm-test/TEST.<type>.Makefile</tt>s), just run:<br/>
-<tt>gmake TEST=<type> test</tt><br/>For example, you could run the
-nightly tester tests using the following commands:</p>
-
-<pre>
- % cd llvm/projects/llvm-test
- % gmake TEST=nightly test
-</pre>
-
-<p>Regardless of which test you're running, the results are printed on standard
-output and standard error. You can redirect these results to a file if you
-choose.</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>
-
-<p>The tests in <tt>llvm-test</tt> have no such feature at this time. If the
-test passes, only warnings and other miscellaneous output will be generated. If
-a test fails, a large <program> FAILED message will be displayed. This
-will help you separate benign warnings from actual test failures.</p>
-
-</div>
-
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-<div class="doc_subsection">
-<a name="customtest">Writing custom tests for llvm-test</a></div>
-<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
-
-<div class="doc_text">
-
-<p>Assuming you can run llvm-test, (e.g. "<tt>gmake TEST=nightly report</tt>"
-should work), it is really easy to run optimizations or code generator
-components against every program in the tree, collecting statistics or running
-custom checks for correctness. At base, this is how the nightly tester works,
-it's just one example of a general framework.</p>
-
-<p>Lets say that you have an LLVM optimization pass, and you want to see how
-many times it triggers. First thing you should do is add an LLVM
-<a href="ProgrammersManual.html#Statistic">statistic</a> to your pass, which
-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
-"<tt>llvm-test/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
-format the output into a table. There are many example reports of various
-levels of sophistication included with llvm-test, and the framework is very
-general.</p>
-
-<p>If you are interested in testing an optimization pass, check out the
-"libcalls" test as an example. It can be run like this:<p>
-
-<div class="doc_code">
-<pre>
-% cd llvm/projects/llvm-test/MultiSource/Benchmarks # or some other level
-% make TEST=libcalls report
-</pre>
-</div>
+<div>
-<p>This will do a bunch of stuff, then eventually print a table like this:</p>
+<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>
-<div class="doc_code">
-<pre>
-Name | total | #exit |
-...
-FreeBench/analyzer/analyzer | 51 | 6 |
-FreeBench/fourinarow/fourinarow | 1 | 1 |
-FreeBench/neural/neural | 19 | 9 |
-FreeBench/pifft/pifft | 5 | 3 |
-MallocBench/cfrac/cfrac | 1 | * |
-MallocBench/espresso/espresso | 52 | 12 |
-MallocBench/gs/gs | 4 | * |
-Prolangs-C/TimberWolfMC/timberwolfmc | 302 | * |
-Prolangs-C/agrep/agrep | 33 | 12 |
-Prolangs-C/allroots/allroots | * | * |
-Prolangs-C/assembler/assembler | 47 | * |
-Prolangs-C/bison/mybison | 74 | * |
-...
-</pre>
-</div>
+<p><tt>test-suite</tt> tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource,
+SingleSource, and External.</p>
-<p>This basically is grepping the -stats output and displaying it in a table.
-You can also use the "TEST=libcalls report.html" target to get the table in HTML
-form, similarly for report.csv and report.tex.</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>
-<p>The source for this is in llvm-test/TEST.libcalls.*. The format is pretty
-simple: the Makefile indicates how to run the test (in this case,
-"<tt>opt -simplify-libcalls -stats</tt>"), and the report contains one line for
-each column of the output. The first value is the header for the column and the
-second is the regex to grep the output of the command for. There are lots of
-example reports that can do fancy stuff.</p>
+<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>
-
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<div class="doc_section"><a name="nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></div>
+<h2><a name="testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a></h2>
<!--=========================================================================-->
-<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 feature and regression 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. We usually run it
-from a crontab entry that looks like this:</p>
+<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>
-<div class="doc_code">
-<pre>
-5 3 * * * $HOME/llvm/utils/NewNightlyTest.pl -parallel -nickname Nickname \
- $CVSROOT $HOME/buildtest $HOME/cvs/testresults
-</pre>
+<p>For more information on using LNT to execute the <tt>test-suite</tt>, please
+see the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/lnt/quickstart.html">LNT Quickstart</a>
+documentation.</p>
</div>
-<p>Or, you can create a shell script to encapsulate the running of the script.
-The optimized x86 Linux nightly test is run from just such a script:</p>
-
-<div class="doc_code">
-<pre>
-#!/bin/bash
-BASE=/proj/work/llvm/nightlytest
-export CVSROOT=:pserver:anon@llvm.org:/var/cvs/llvm
-export BUILDDIR=$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 2>&1 > output.log
-</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>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
+<h2><a name="testsuitemakefiles"><tt>test-suite</tt> Makefiles</a></h2>
+<!--=========================================================================-->
-<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>
+<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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