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<title>LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide</title>
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<div class="doc_title">
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LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
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<li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
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<li><a href="#org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#dejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></li>
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<li><a href="#testsuite">Test suite</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#quick">Quick start</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#quickdejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></li>
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<li><a href="#quicktestsuite">Test suite</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#dgstructure">DejaGNU structure</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#dgcustom">Writing new DejaGNU tests</a></li>
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<li><a href="#dgvars">Variables and substitutions</a></li>
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<li><a href="#dgfeatures">Other features</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#testsuitestructure">Test suite structure</a></li>
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<li><a href="#testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="#testsuiteexternal">Configuring external tests</a></li>
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<li><a href="#testsuitetests">Running different tests</a></li>
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<li><a href="#testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a></li>
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<li><a href="#testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for llvm-test</a></li>
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</ul>
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</li>
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<li><a href="#nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></li>
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</ol>
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<div class="doc_author">
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<p>Written by John T. Criswell, <a
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href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/rspencer">Reid Spencer</a>, and Tanya Lattner</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="overview">Overview</a></div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>This document is the reference manual for the LLVM testing infrastructure. It documents
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the structure of the LLVM testing infrastructure, the tools needed to use it,
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and how to add and run tests.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>In order to use the LLVM testing infrastructure, you will need all of the software
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required to build LLVM, plus the following:</p>
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<dl>
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<dt><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/">DejaGNU</a></dt>
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<dd>The Feature and Regressions tests are organized and run by DejaGNU.</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://expect.nist.gov/">Expect</a></dt>
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<dd>Expect is required by DejaGNU.</dd>
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<dt><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/">tcl</a></dt>
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<dd>Tcl is required by DejaGNU. </dd>
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<ul>
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<li><tt>./configure --with-f2c=$DIR</tt><br>
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This will specify a new <tt>$DIR</tt> for the above-described search
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process. This will only work if the binary, header, and library are in their
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respective subdirectories of <tt>$DIR</tt>.</li>
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<li><tt>./configure --with-f2c-bin=/binary/path --with-f2c-inc=/include/path
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--with-f2c-lib=/lib/path</tt><br>
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This allows you to specify the F2C components separately. Note: if you choose
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this route, you MUST specify all three components, and you need to only specify
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<em>directories</em> where the files are located; do NOT include the
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filenames themselves on the <tt>configure</tt> line.</li>
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</ul></dd>
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</dl>
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<p>Darwin (Mac OS X) developers can simplify the installation of Expect and tcl
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by using fink. <tt>fink install expect</tt> will install both. Alternatively,
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Darwinports users can use <tt>sudo port install expect</tt> to install Expect
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and tcl.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a></div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>The LLVM testing infrastructure contains two major categories of tests: code
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fragments and whole programs. Code fragments are referred to as the "DejaGNU
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tests" and are in the <tt>llvm</tt> module in subversion under the
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<tt>llvm/test</tt> directory. The whole programs tests are referred to as the
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"Test suite" and are in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module in subversion.
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</p>
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</div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>Code fragments are small pieces of code that test a specific feature of LLVM
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or trigger a specific bug in LLVM. They are usually written in LLVM assembly
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language, but can be written in other languages if the test targets a particular
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language front end. These tests are driven by the DejaGNU testing framework,
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which is hidden behind a few simple makefiles.</p>
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<p>These code fragments are not complete programs. The code generated from them is
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never executed to determine correct behavior.</p>
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<p>These code fragment tests are located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt>
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directory.</p>
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<p>Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing
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just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed
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somewhere underneath this directory. In most cases, this will be a small
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piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual
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application or benchmark.</p>
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</div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="testsuite">Test suite</a></div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>The test suite contains whole programs, which are pieces of
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code which can be compiled and linked into a stand-alone program that can be
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executed. These programs are generally written in high level languages such as
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C or C++, but sometimes they are written straight in LLVM assembly.</p>
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<p>These programs are compiled and then executed using several different
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methods (native compiler, LLVM C backend, LLVM JIT, LLVM native code generation,
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etc). The output of these programs is compared to ensure that LLVM is compiling
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the program correctly.</p>
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<p>In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as
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a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the
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programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and
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generates code.</p>
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<p>The test-suite is located in the <tt>test-suite</tt> Subversion module.</p>
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</div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="quick">Quick start</a></div>
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<!--=========================================================================-->
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>The tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The
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DejaGNU tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory
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<tt>llvm/test</tt> (so you get these tests for free with the main llvm tree).
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The more comprehensive test suite that includes whole
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programs in C and C++ is in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module. This module should
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be checked out to the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory (don't use another name
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then the default "test-suite", for then the test suite will be run every time
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you run <tt>make</tt> in the main <tt>llvm</tt> directory).
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When you <tt>configure</tt> the <tt>llvm</tt> module,
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the <tt>test-suite</tt> directory will be automatically configured.
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Alternatively, you can configure the <tt>test-suite</tt> module manually.</p>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="quickdejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<p>To run all of the simple tests in LLVM using DejaGNU, use the master Makefile
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in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% gmake -C llvm/test
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>or</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% gmake check
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>To run only a subdirectory of tests in <tt>llvm/test</tt> using DejaGNU (ie.
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Transforms), just set the TESTSUITE variable to the path of the
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subdirectory (relative to <tt>llvm/test</tt>):</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% gmake TESTSUITE=Transforms check
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p><b>Note: If you are running the tests with <tt>objdir != subdir</tt>, you
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must have run the complete testsuite before you can specify a
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subdirectory.</b></p>
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<p>To run only a single test, set <tt>TESTONE</tt> to its path (relative to
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<tt>llvm/test</tt>) and make the <tt>check-one</tt> target:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% gmake TESTONE=Feature/basictest.ll check-one
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
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<tt>VG=1</tt> to the commands above, e.g.:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% gmake check VG=1
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</pre>
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</div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="quicktestsuite">Test suite</a></div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<p>To run the comprehensive test suite (tests that compile and execute whole
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programs), first checkout and setup the <tt>test-suite</tt> module:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% cd llvm/projects
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% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk test-suite
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% cd ..
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% ./configure --with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR
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</pre>
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<p>where <tt>$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt> is the directory where you <em>installed</em>
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llvm-gcc, not it's src or obj dir.</p>
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</div>
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<p>Then, run the entire test suite by running make in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
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directory:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% cd projects/test-suite
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% gmake
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>Usually, running the "nightly" set of tests is a good idea, and you can also
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let it generate a report by running:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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% cd projects/test-suite
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% gmake TEST=nightly report report.html
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>Any of the above commands can also be run in a subdirectory of
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<tt>projects/test-suite</tt> to run the specified test only on the programs in
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that subdirectory.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="dgstructure">DejaGNU structure</a></div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>The LLVM DejaGNU tests are driven by DejaGNU together with GNU Make and are
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located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.
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<p>This directory contains a large array of small tests
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that exercise various features of LLVM and to ensure that regressions do not
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occur. The directory is broken into several sub-directories, each focused on
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a particular area of LLVM. A few of the important ones are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><tt>Analysis</tt>: checks Analysis passes.</li>
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<li><tt>Archive</tt>: checks the Archive library.</li>
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<li><tt>Assembler</tt>: checks Assembly reader/writer functionality.</li>
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<li><tt>Bitcode</tt>: checks Bitcode reader/writer functionality.</li>
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<li><tt>CodeGen</tt>: checks code generation and each target.</li>
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<li><tt>Features</tt>: checks various features of the LLVM language.</li>
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<li><tt>Linker</tt>: tests bitcode linking.</li>
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<li><tt>Transforms</tt>: tests each of the scalar, IPO, and utility
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transforms to ensure they make the right transformations.</li>
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<li><tt>Verifier</tt>: tests the IR verifier.</li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgcustom">Writing new DejaGNU tests</a></div>
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<div class="doc_text">
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<p>The DejaGNU structure is very simple, but does require some information to
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be set. This information is gathered via <tt>configure</tt> and is written
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to a file, <tt>site.exp</tt> in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. The <tt>llvm/test</tt>
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Makefile does this work for you.</p>
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<p>In order for DejaGNU to work, each directory of tests must have a
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<tt>dg.exp</tt> file. DejaGNU looks for this file to determine how to run the
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tests. This file is just a Tcl script and it can do anything you want, but
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we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a
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directory of tests, just copy <tt>dg.exp</tt> from another directory to get
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running. The standard <tt>dg.exp</tt> simply loads a Tcl
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library (<tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) and calls the <tt>llvm_runtests</tt>
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function defined in that library with a list of file names to run. The names
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are obtained by using Tcl's glob command. Any directory that contains only
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directories does not need the <tt>dg.exp</tt> file.</p>
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<p>The <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function lookas at each file that is passed to
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it and gathers any lines together that match "RUN:". This are the "RUN" lines
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that specify how the test is to be run. So, each test script must contain
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RUN lines if it is to do anything. If there are no RUN lines, the
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<tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function will issue an error and the test will
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fail.</p>
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<p>RUN lines are specified in the comments of the test program using the
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keyword <tt>RUN</tt> followed by a colon, and lastly the command (pipeline)
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to execute. Together, these lines form the "script" that
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<tt>llvm-runtests</tt> executes to run the test case. The syntax of the
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RUN lines is similar to a shell's syntax for pipelines including I/O
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redirection and variable substitution. However, even though these lines
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may <i>look</i> like a shell script, they are not. RUN lines are interpreted
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directly by the Tcl <tt>exec</tt> command. They are never executed by a
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shell. Consequently the syntax differs from normal shell script syntax in a
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few ways. You can specify as many RUN lines as needed.</p>
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<p>Each RUN line is executed on its own, distinct from other lines unless
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its last character is <tt>\</tt>. This continuation character causes the RUN
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line to be concatenated with the next one. In this way you can build up long
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pipelines of commands without making huge line lengths. The lines ending in
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<tt>\</tt> are concatenated until a RUN line that doesn't end in <tt>\</tt> is
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found. This concatenated set of RUN lines then constitutes one execution.
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Tcl will substitute variables and arrange for the pipeline to be executed. If
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any process in the pipeline fails, the entire line (and test case) fails too.
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</p>
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<p> Below is an example of legal RUN lines in a <tt>.ll</tt> file:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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; RUN: llvm-as < %s | llvm-dis > %t1
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; RUN: llvm-dis < %s.bc-13 > %t2
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; RUN: diff %t1 %t2
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>As with a Unix shell, the RUN: lines permit pipelines and I/O redirection
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to be used. However, the usage is slightly different than for Bash. To check
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what's legal, see the documentation for the
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<a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/exec.htm#M2">Tcl exec</a>
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command and the
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<a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl26.html">tutorial</a>.
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The major differences are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>You can't do <tt>2>&1</tt>. That will cause Tcl to write to a
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file named <tt>&1</tt>. Usually this is done to get stderr to go through
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a pipe. You can do that in tcl with <tt>|&</tt> so replace this idiom:
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<tt>... 2>&1 | grep</tt> with <tt>... |& grep</tt></li>
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<li>You can only redirect to a file, not to another descriptor and not from
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a here document.</li>
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<li>tcl supports redirecting to open files with the @ syntax but you
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shouldn't use that here.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>There are some quoting rules that you must pay attention to when writing
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your RUN lines. In general nothing needs to be quoted. Tcl won't strip off any
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' or " so they will get passed to the invoked program. For example:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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... | grep 'find this string'
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>This will fail because the ' characters are passed to grep. This would
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instruction grep to look for <tt>'find</tt> in the files <tt>this</tt> and
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<tt>string'</tt>. To avoid this use curly braces to tell Tcl that it should
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treat everything enclosed as one value. So our example would become:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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... | grep {find this string}
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>Additionally, the characters <tt>[</tt> and <tt>]</tt> are treated
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specially by Tcl. They tell Tcl to interpret the content as a command to
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execute. Since these characters are often used in regular expressions this can
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have disastrous results and cause the entire test run in a directory to fail.
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For example, a common idiom is to look for some basicblock number:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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... | grep bb[2-8]
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>This, however, will cause Tcl to fail because its going to try to execute
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a program named "2-8". Instead, what you want is this:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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... | grep {bb\[2-8\]}
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>Finally, if you need to pass the <tt>\</tt> character down to a program,
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then it must be doubled. This is another Tcl special character. So, suppose
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you had:
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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... | grep 'i32\*'
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</pre>
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</div>
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<p>This will fail to match what you want (a pointer to i32). First, the
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<tt>'</tt> do not get stripped off. Second, the <tt>\</tt> gets stripped off
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by Tcl so what grep sees is: <tt>'i32*'</tt>. That's not likely to match
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anything. To resolve this you must use <tt>\\</tt> and the <tt>{}</tt>, like
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this:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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... | grep {i32\\*}
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</pre>
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgvars">Variables and substitutions</a></div>
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<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
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<div class="doc_text">
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|
<p>With a RUN line there are a number of substitutions that are permitted. In
|
|
general, any Tcl variable that is available in the <tt>substitute</tt>
|
|
function (in <tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) can be substituted into a RUN line.
|
|
To make a substitution just write the variable's name preceded by a $.
|
|
Additionally, for compatibility reasons with previous versions of the test
|
|
library, certain names can be accessed with an alternate syntax: a % prefix.
|
|
These alternates are deprecated and may go away in a future version.
|
|
</p>
|
|
<p>Here are the available variable names. The alternate syntax is listed in
|
|
parentheses.</p>
|
|
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|
<dl style="margin-left: 25px">
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|
<dt><b>$test</b> (%s)</dt>
|
|
<dd>The full path to the test case's source. This is suitable for passing
|
|
on the command line as the input to an llvm tool.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>$srcdir</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>The source directory from where the "<tt>make check</tt>" was run.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>objdir</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>The object directory that corresponds to the <tt>$srcdir</tt>.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>subdir</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>A partial path from the <tt>test</tt> directory that contains the
|
|
sub-directory that contains the test source being executed.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>srcroot</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>The root directory of the LLVM src tree.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>objroot</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>The root directory of the LLVM object tree. This could be the same
|
|
as the srcroot.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>path</b><dt>
|
|
<dd>The path to the directory that contains the test case source. This is
|
|
for locating any supporting files that are not generated by the test, but
|
|
used by the test.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>tmp</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>The path to a temporary file name that could be used for this test case.
|
|
The file name won't conflict with other test cases. You can append to it if
|
|
you need multiple temporaries. This is useful as the destination of some
|
|
redirected output.</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>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>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
<p>To add more variables, two things need to be changed. First, add a line in
|
|
the <tt>test/Makefile</tt> that creates the <tt>site.exp</tt> file. This will
|
|
"set" the variable as a global in the site.exp file. Second, in the
|
|
<tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt> file, in the substitute proc, add the variable name
|
|
to the list of "global" declarations at the beginning of the proc. That's it,
|
|
the variable can then be used in test scripts.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgfeatures">Other Features</a></div>
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
|
<p>To make RUN line writing easier, there are several shell scripts located
|
|
in the <tt>llvm/test/Scripts</tt> directory. This directory is in the PATH
|
|
when running tests, so you can just call these scripts using their name. For
|
|
example:</p>
|
|
<dl>
|
|
<dt><b>ignore</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>This script runs its arguments and then always returns 0. This is useful
|
|
in cases where the test needs to cause a tool to generate an error (e.g. to
|
|
check the error output). However, any program in a pipeline that returns a
|
|
non-zero result will cause the test to fail. This script overcomes that
|
|
issue and nicely documents that the test case is purposefully ignoring the
|
|
result code of the tool</dd>
|
|
|
|
<dt><b>not</b></dt>
|
|
<dd>This script runs its arguments and then inverts the result code from
|
|
it. Zero result codes become 1. Non-zero result codes become 0. This is
|
|
useful to invert the result of a grep. For example "not grep X" means
|
|
succeed only if you don't find X in the input.</dd>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
|
|
<p>Sometimes it is necessary to mark a test case as "expected fail" or XFAIL.
|
|
You can easily mark a test as XFAIL just by including <tt>XFAIL: </tt> on a
|
|
line near the top of the file. This signals that the test case should succeed
|
|
if the test fails. Such test cases are counted separately by DejaGnu. 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>
|
|
|
|
<div class="doc_code">
|
|
<pre>
|
|
; XFAIL: darwin,sun,llvmgcc4
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<p>To make the output more useful, the <tt>llvm_runtest</tt> function wil
|
|
scan the lines of the test case for ones that contain a pattern that matches
|
|
PR[0-9]+. This is the syntax for specifying a PR (Problem Report) number that
|
|
is related to the test case. The number after "PR" specifies the LLVM bugzilla
|
|
number. When a PR number is specified, it will be used in the pass/fail
|
|
reporting. This is useful to quickly get some context when a test fails.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Finally, any line that contains "END." will cause the special
|
|
interpretation of lines to terminate. This is generally done right after the
|
|
last RUN: line. This has two side effects: (a) it prevents special
|
|
interpretation of lines that are part of the test program, not the
|
|
instructions to the test case, and (b) it speeds things up for really big test
|
|
cases by avoiding interpretation of the remainder of the file.</p>
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<!--=========================================================================-->
|
|
<div class="doc_section"><a name="testsuitestructure">Test suite
|
|
Structure</a></div>
|
|
<!--=========================================================================-->
|
|
|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
|
|
|
<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
|
|
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>When executing tests, it is usually a good idea to start out with a subset of
|
|
the available tests or programs. This makes test run times smaller at first and
|
|
later on this is useful to investigate individual test failures. To run some
|
|
test only on a subset of programs, simply change directory to the programs you
|
|
want tested and run <tt>gmake</tt> there. Alternatively, you can run a different
|
|
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
|
|
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,
|
|
SingleSource, and External.</p>
|
|
|
|
<ul>
|
|
<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 <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
|
|
<tt>configure</tt> script.</p></li>
|
|
</ul>
|
|
|
|
<p>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>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 the test suite 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_section"><a name="testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a></div>
|
|
<!--=========================================================================-->
|
|
|
|
<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>To run the test suite, you need to use the following steps:</p>
|
|
|
|
<ol>
|
|
<li><tt>cd</tt> into the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory in your source tree.
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><p>Check out the <tt>test-suite</tt> module with:</p>
|
|
|
|
<div class="doc_code">
|
|
<pre>
|
|
% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk test-suite
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<p>This will get the test suite into <tt>llvm/projects/test-suite</tt>.</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
<li><p>Configure llvm from the top level of each build tree (LLVM object directory tree)
|
|
in which you want to run the test suite, just as you do before building LLVM.</p>
|
|
<p>When running configure, you must either: (1) have <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>
|
|
in your path, or (2) specify the directory where <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is
|
|
installed using <tt>--with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt>.</p>
|
|
<p>This step tells the configure machinery that the test suite
|
|
is now available so it can be configured for your build tree:</p>
|
|
<div class="doc_code">
|
|
<pre>
|
|
% cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT ; $LLVM_SRC_ROOT/configure [--with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR]
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<p>[Remember that <tt>$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt> is the directory where you
|
|
<em>installed</em> llvm-gcc, not its src or obj directory.]</p>
|
|
</li>
|
|
|
|
<li><p>You can now run the test suite from your build tree as follows:</p>
|
|
<div class="doc_code">
|
|
<pre>
|
|
% cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT/projects/test-suite
|
|
% make
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</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>
|
|
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_subsection">
|
|
<a name="testsuiteexternal">Configuring external tests</a></div>
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
|
<p>Note, when configuring the <tt>test-suite</tt> module, you might want to
|
|
specify the following configuration option:</p>
|
|
<dl>
|
|
<dt><i>--with-externals</i></dt>
|
|
<dt><i>--with-externals=<<tt>directory</tt>></i></dt>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
This tells LLVM where to find any external tests. They are expected to be
|
|
in specifically named subdirectories of <<tt>directory</tt>>.
|
|
If <tt>directory</tt> is left unspecified,
|
|
<tt>configure</tt> uses the default value
|
|
<tt>/home/vadve/shared/benchmarks/speccpu2000/benchspec</tt>.
|
|
Subdirectory names known to LLVM include:
|
|
<dl>
|
|
<dt>spec95</dt>
|
|
<dt>speccpu2000</dt>
|
|
<dt>speccpu2006</dt>
|
|
<dt>povray31</dt>
|
|
</dl>
|
|
Others are added from time to time, and can be determined from
|
|
<tt>configure</tt>.
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_subsection">
|
|
<a name="testsuitetests">Running different tests</a></div>
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
|
<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
|
|
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>
|
|
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_subsection">
|
|
<a name="testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a></div>
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
|
<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
|
|
and compare results. Any failures are reported in the output, but are likely
|
|
drowned in the other output. Passes are not reported explicitely.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Somewhat better is running <tt>gmake TEST=sometest test</tt>, which runs
|
|
the specified test and usually adds per-program summaries to the output
|
|
(depending on which sometest you use). For example, the <tt>nightly</tt> test
|
|
explicitely outputs TEST-PASS or TEST-FAIL for every test after each program.
|
|
Though these lines are still drowned in the output, it's easy to grep the
|
|
output logs in the Output directories.</p>
|
|
|
|
<p>Even better are the <tt>report</tt> and <tt>report.format</tt> targets
|
|
(where <tt>format</tt> is one of <tt>html</tt>, <tt>csv</tt>, <tt>text</tt> or
|
|
<tt>graphs</tt>). The exact contents of the report are dependent on which
|
|
<tt>TEST</tt> you are running, but the text results are always shown at the
|
|
end of the run and the results are always stored in the
|
|
<tt>report.<type>.format</tt> file (when running with
|
|
<tt>TEST=<type></tt>).
|
|
|
|
The <tt>report</tt> also generate a file called
|
|
<tt>report.<type>.raw.out</tt> containing the output of the entire test
|
|
run.
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
<div class="doc_subsection">
|
|
<a name="testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for the test suite</a></div>
|
|
<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
|
|
|
|
<div class="doc_text">
|
|
|
|
<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
|
|
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>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
|
|
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>
|
|
|
|
<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/test-suite/MultiSource/Benchmarks # or some other level
|
|
% make TEST=libcalls report
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
|
|
|
<p>This will do a bunch of stuff, then eventually print a table like this:</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 |
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MallocBench/gs/gs | 4 | * |
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Prolangs-C/TimberWolfMC/timberwolfmc | 302 | * |
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Prolangs-C/agrep/agrep | 33 | 12 |
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Prolangs-C/allroots/allroots | * | * |
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Prolangs-C/assembler/assembler | 47 | * |
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Prolangs-C/bison/mybison | 74 | * |
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<p>This basically is grepping the -stats output and displaying it in a table.
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You can also use the "TEST=libcalls report.html" target to get the table in HTML
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form, similarly for report.csv and report.tex.</p>
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<p>The source for this is in test-suite/TEST.libcalls.*. The format is pretty
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simple: the Makefile indicates how to run the test (in this case,
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"<tt>opt -simplify-libcalls -stats</tt>"), and the report contains one line for
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each column of the output. The first value is the header for the column and the
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second is the regex to grep the output of the command for. There are lots of
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example reports that can do fancy stuff.</p>
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<div class="doc_section"><a name="nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></div>
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<p>
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The <a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">LLVM Nightly Testers</a>
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automatically check out an LLVM tree, build it, run the "nightly"
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program test (described above), run all of the DejaGNU tests,
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delete the checked out tree, and then submit the results to
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<a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">http://llvm.org/nightlytest/</a>.
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After test results are submitted to
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<a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">http://llvm.org/nightlytest/</a>,
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they are processed and displayed on the tests page. An email to
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<a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-testresults/">
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llvm-testresults@cs.uiuc.edu</a> summarizing the results is also generated.
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This testing scheme is designed to ensure that programs don't break as well
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as keep track of LLVM's progress over time.</p>
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<p>If you'd like to set up an instance of the nightly tester to run on your
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machine, take a look at the comments at the top of the
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<tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt> file. If you decide to set up a nightly tester
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please choose a unique nickname and invoke <tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt>
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with the "-nickname [yournickname]" command line option.
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<p>You can create a shell script to encapsulate the running of the script.
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The optimized x86 Linux nightly test is run from just such a script:</p>
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<div class="doc_code">
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<pre>
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#!/bin/bash
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BASE=/proj/work/llvm/nightlytest
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export BUILDDIR=$BASE/build
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export WEBDIR=$BASE/testresults
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export LLVMGCCDIR=/proj/work/llvm/cfrontend/install
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export PATH=/proj/install/bin:$LLVMGCCDIR/bin:$PATH
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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proj/install/lib
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cd $BASE
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cp /proj/work/llvm/llvm/utils/NewNightlyTest.pl .
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nice ./NewNightlyTest.pl -nice -release -verbose -parallel -enable-linscan \
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-nickname NightlyTester -noexternals > output.log 2>&1
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</div>
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<p>It is also possible to specify the the location your nightly test results
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are submitted. You can do this by passing the command line option
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"-submit-server [server_address]" and "-submit-script [script_on_server]" to
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<tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt>. For example, to submit to the llvm.org
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nightly test results page, you would invoke the nightly test script with
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"-submit-server llvm.org -submit-script /nightlytest/NightlyTestAccept.cgi".
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If these options are not specified, the nightly test script sends the results
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to the llvm.org nightly test results page.</p>
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<p>Take a look at the <tt>NewNightlyTest.pl</tt> file to see what all of the
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flags and strings do. If you start running the nightly tests, please let us
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