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NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]11<h1>
Matthijs Kooijman31ce08f2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000[diff] [blame]12 LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]13</h1>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]14
Brian Gaekeaf19f2e2003-10-23 18:10:28 +0000[diff] [blame]15<ol>
Reid Spencer820e2472004-11-01 08:30:14 +0000[diff] [blame]16 <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman31ce08f2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000[diff] [blame]17 <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
18 <li><a href="#org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a>
Reid Spencer820e2472004-11-01 08:30:14 +0000[diff] [blame]19 <ul>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]20 <li><a href="#regressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]21 <li><a href="#testsuite"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></li>
Devang Patel40d438e2010-11-11 00:13:39 +0000[diff] [blame]22 <li><a href="#debuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
Reid Spencer820e2472004-11-01 08:30:14 +0000[diff] [blame]23 </ul>
24 </li>
Matthijs Kooijman31ce08f2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000[diff] [blame]25 <li><a href="#quick">Quick start</a>
Chris Lattnereb82da82006-05-23 01:40:20 +0000[diff] [blame]26 <ul>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]27 <li><a href="#quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></li>
Devang Patel40d438e2010-11-11 00:13:39 +0000[diff] [blame]28 <li><a href="#quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]29 </ul>
30 </li>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]31 <li><a href="#rtstructure">Regression test structure</a>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]32 <ul>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]33 <li><a href="#rtcustom">Writing new regression tests</a></li>
Chris Lattner3d2de1d2009-08-15 15:40:48 +0000[diff] [blame]34 <li><a href="#FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></li>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]35 <li><a href="#rtvars">Variables and substitutions</a></li>
36 <li><a href="#rtfeatures">Other features</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]37 </ul>
38 </li>
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]39 <li><a href="#testsuiteoverview"><tt>test-suite</tt> Overview</a>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]40 <ul>
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]41 <li><a href="#testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a></li>
42 <li><a href="#testsuitemakefiles"><tt>test-suite</tt> Makefiles</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]43 </ul>
Chris Lattnereb82da82006-05-23 01:40:20 +0000[diff] [blame]44 </li>
Brian Gaekeaf19f2e2003-10-23 18:10:28 +0000[diff] [blame]45</ol>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]46
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]47<div class="doc_author">
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]48 <p>Written by John T. Criswell, Daniel Dunbar, Reid Spencer, and Tanya Lattner</p>
Chris Lattner7911ce22004-05-23 21:07:27 +0000[diff] [blame]49</div>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]51<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]52<h2><a name="overview">Overview</a></h2>
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]53<!--=========================================================================-->
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]54
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]55<div>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]56
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]57<p>This document is the reference manual for the LLVM testing infrastructure. It
58documents the structure of the LLVM testing infrastructure, the tools needed to
59use it, and how to add and run tests.</p>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]60
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]61</div>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]62
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]63<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]64<h2><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]65<!--=========================================================================-->
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]66
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]67<div>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]68
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]69<p>In order to use the LLVM testing infrastructure, you will need all of the
70software required to build LLVM, as well
71as <a href="http://python.org">Python</a> 2.4 or later.</p>
Jim Laskeya2dee012006-03-27 18:41:06 +0000[diff] [blame]72
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]73</div>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]74
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]75<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]76<h2><a name="org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a></h2>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]77<!--=========================================================================-->
78
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]79<div>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]80
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]81<p>The LLVM testing infrastructure contains two major categories of tests:
82regression tests and whole programs. The regression tests are contained inside
83the LLVM repository itself under <tt>llvm/test</tt> and are expected to always
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]84pass -- they should be run before every commit.</p>
85
86<p>The whole programs tests are referred to as the "LLVM test suite" (or
87"test-suite") and are in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module in subversion. For
88historical reasons, these tests are also referred to as the "nightly tests" in
89places, which is less ambiguous than "test-suite" and remains in use although we
90run them much more often than nightly.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]91
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]92<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]93<h3><a name="regressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]94<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
95
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]96<div>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]97
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]98<p>The regression tests are small pieces of code that test a specific feature of
99LLVM or trigger a specific bug in LLVM. They are usually written in LLVM
100assembly language, but can be written in other languages if the test targets a
101particular language front end (and the appropriate <tt>--with-llvmgcc</tt>
102options were used at <tt>configure</tt> time of the <tt>llvm</tt> module). These
103tests are driven by the 'lit' testing tool, which is part of LLVM.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]104
Shantonu Sen1b6d3da2009-06-26 05:44:53 +0000[diff] [blame]105<p>These code fragments are not complete programs. The code generated
106from them is never executed to determine correct behavior.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]107
108<p>These code fragment tests are located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt>
109directory.</p>
110
111<p>Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing
112just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed
113somewhere underneath this directory. In most cases, this will be a small
114piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual
115application or benchmark.</p>
116
117</div>
118
119<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]120<h3><a name="testsuite"><tt>test-suite</tt></a></h3>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]121<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
122
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]123<div>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]124
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]125<p>The test suite contains whole programs, which are pieces of code which can be
126compiled and linked into a stand-alone program that can be executed. These
127programs are generally written in high level languages such as C or C++.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]128
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]129<p>These programs are compiled using a user specified compiler and set of flags,
130and then executed to capture the program output and timing information. The
131output of these programs is compared to a reference output to ensure that the
132program is being compiled correctly.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]133
134<p>In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as
135a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the
136programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and
137generates code.</p>
138
Matthijs Kooijman31ce08f2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000[diff] [blame]139<p>The test-suite is located in the <tt>test-suite</tt> Subversion module.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]140
141</div>
142
Devang Patel40d438e2010-11-11 00:13:39 +0000[diff] [blame]143<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]144<h3><a name="debuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></h3>
Devang Patel40d438e2010-11-11 00:13:39 +0000[diff] [blame]145<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
146
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]147<div>
Devang Patel40d438e2010-11-11 00:13:39 +0000[diff] [blame]148
149<p>The test suite contains tests to check quality of debugging information.
150The test are written in C based languages or in LLVM assembly language. </p>
151
152<p>These tests are compiled and run under a debugger. The debugger output
153is checked to validate of debugging information. See README.txt in the
154test suite for more information . This test suite is located in the
155<tt>debuginfo-tests</tt> Subversion module. </p>
156
157</div>
158
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]159</div>
160
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]161<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]162<h2><a name="quick">Quick start</a></h2>
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]163<!--=========================================================================-->
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]164
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]165<div>
Brian Gaekeaf19f2e2003-10-23 18:10:28 +0000[diff] [blame]166
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]167 <p>The tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The regressions
168 tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]169 <tt>llvm/test</tt> (so you get these tests for free with the main llvm
170 tree). Use "make check-all" to run the regression tests after building
171 LLVM.</p>
172
173 <p>The more comprehensive test suite that includes whole programs in C and C++
174 is in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
175 module. See <a href="#testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a>
176 for more information on running these tests.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]177
178<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]179<h3><a name="quickregressiontests">Regression tests</a></h3>
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]180<div>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]181<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]182<p>To run all of the LLVM regression tests, use master Makefile in
183 the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]184
185<div class="doc_code">
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]186<pre>
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]187% gmake -C llvm/test
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]188</pre>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]189</div>
190
191<p>or</p>
192
193<div class="doc_code">
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]194<pre>
195% gmake check
196</pre>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]197</div>
John Criswell0c8a9a12005-05-13 20:25:49 +0000[diff] [blame]198
NAKAMURA Takumib9a33632011-04-09 02:13:37 +0000[diff] [blame]199<p>If you have <a href="http://clang.llvm.org/">Clang</a> checked out and built,
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]200you can run the LLVM and Clang tests simultaneously using:</p>
201
202<p>or</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]203
204<div class="doc_code">
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]205<pre>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]206% gmake check-all
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]207</pre>
208</div>
209
Nuno Lopes21bfe0b2008-11-25 15:57:52 +0000[diff] [blame]210<p>To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
211<tt>VG=1</tt> to the commands above, e.g.:</p>
212
213<div class="doc_code">
214<pre>
215% gmake check VG=1
216</pre>
217</div>
218
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]219<p>To run individual tests or subsets of tests, you can use the 'llvm-lit'
220script which is built as part of LLVM. For example, to run the
221'Integer/BitCast.ll' test by itself you can run:</p>
222
223<div class="doc_code">
224<pre>
225% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/Integer/BitCast.ll
226</pre>
227</div>
228
229<p>or to run all of the ARM CodeGen tests:</p>
230
231<div class="doc_code">
232<pre>
233% llvm-lit ~/llvm/test/CodeGen/ARM
234</pre>
235</div>
236
237<p>For more information on using the 'lit' tool, see 'llvm-lit --help' or the
238'lit' man page.</p>
239
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]240</div>
241
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]242<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]243<h3><a name="quickdebuginfotests">Debugging Information tests</a></h3>
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]244<div>
Devang Patel40d438e2010-11-11 00:13:39 +0000[diff] [blame]245<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]246<div>
Devang Patel40d438e2010-11-11 00:13:39 +0000[diff] [blame]247
248<p> To run debugging information tests simply checkout the tests inside
249clang/test directory. </p>
250
251<div class="doc_code">
252<pre>
253%cd clang/test
254% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/debuginfo-tests/trunk debuginfo-tests
255</pre>
256</div>
257
258<p> These tests are already set up to run as part of clang regression tests.</p>
259
260</div>
261
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]262</div>
263
264</div>
265
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]266<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]267<h2><a name="rtstructure">Regression test structure</a></h2>
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]268<!--=========================================================================-->
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]269<div>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <p>The LLVM regression tests are driven by 'lit' and are located in
271 the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]272
Reid Spencera99256e2007-02-08 17:00:55 +0000[diff] [blame]273 <p>This directory contains a large array of small tests
274 that exercise various features of LLVM and to ensure that regressions do not
275 occur. The directory is broken into several sub-directories, each focused on
Bill Wendlingeb6aace2007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000[diff] [blame]276 a particular area of LLVM. A few of the important ones are:</p>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]277
Bill Wendlingeb6aace2007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000[diff] [blame]278 <ul>
Reid Spencera99256e2007-02-08 17:00:55 +0000[diff] [blame]279 <li><tt>Analysis</tt>: checks Analysis passes.</li>
280 <li><tt>Archive</tt>: checks the Archive library.</li>
281 <li><tt>Assembler</tt>: checks Assembly reader/writer functionality.</li>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]282 <li><tt>Bitcode</tt>: checks Bitcode reader/writer functionality.</li>
Reid Spencera99256e2007-02-08 17:00:55 +0000[diff] [blame]283 <li><tt>CodeGen</tt>: checks code generation and each target.</li>
284 <li><tt>Features</tt>: checks various features of the LLVM language.</li>
Gabor Greif04367bf2007-07-06 22:07:22 +0000[diff] [blame]285 <li><tt>Linker</tt>: tests bitcode linking.</li>
Reid Spencera99256e2007-02-08 17:00:55 +0000[diff] [blame]286 <li><tt>Transforms</tt>: tests each of the scalar, IPO, and utility
287 transforms to ensure they make the right transformations.</li>
288 <li><tt>Verifier</tt>: tests the IR verifier.</li>
Bill Wendlingeb6aace2007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000[diff] [blame]289 </ul>
Brian Gaekeaf19f2e2003-10-23 18:10:28 +0000[diff] [blame]290
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]291<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]292<h3><a name="rtcustom">Writing new regression tests</a></h3>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]293<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]294<div>
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]295 <p>The regression test structure is very simple, but does require some
296 information to be set. This information is gathered via <tt>configure</tt> and
297 is written to a file, <tt>lit.site.cfg</tt>
298 in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. The <tt>llvm/test</tt> Makefile does this work for
299 you.</p>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]300
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]301 <p>In order for the regression tests to work, each directory of tests must
Eli Benderskyecc754d2012-04-18 08:02:25 +0000[diff] [blame^]302 have a <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> file. Lit looks for this file to determine how
303 to run the tests. This file is just Python code and thus is very flexible,
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]304 but we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a
Eli Benderskyecc754d2012-04-18 08:02:25 +0000[diff] [blame^]305 directory of tests, just copy <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> from another directory to
306 get running. The standard <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> simply specifies which files
307 to look in for tests. Any directory that contains only directories does not
308 need the <tt>lit.local.cfg</tt> file. Read the
309 <a href="http://llvm.org/cmds/lit.html">Lit documentation</a> for more
310 information. </p>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]311
Chad Rosier55756e02011-05-18 18:07:16 +0000[diff] [blame]312 <p>The <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function looks at each file that is passed to
313 it and gathers any lines together that match "RUN:". These are the "RUN" lines
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]314 that specify how the test is to be run. So, each test script must contain
315 RUN lines if it is to do anything. If there are no RUN lines, the
316 <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function will issue an error and the test will
317 fail.</p>
Misha Brukmanfc1a27b2005-03-10 22:51:59 +0000[diff] [blame]318
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]319 <p>RUN lines are specified in the comments of the test program using the
320 keyword <tt>RUN</tt> followed by a colon, and lastly the command (pipeline)
321 to execute. Together, these lines form the "script" that
322 <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> executes to run the test case. The syntax of the
323 RUN lines is similar to a shell's syntax for pipelines including I/O
324 redirection and variable substitution. However, even though these lines
325 may <i>look</i> like a shell script, they are not. RUN lines are interpreted
326 directly by the Tcl <tt>exec</tt> command. They are never executed by a
327 shell. Consequently the syntax differs from normal shell script syntax in a
328 few ways. You can specify as many RUN lines as needed.</p>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]329
David Greene18d49872011-01-03 17:30:25 +0000[diff] [blame]330 <p>lit performs substitution on each RUN line to replace LLVM tool
331 names with the full paths to the executable built for each tool (in
332 $(LLVM_OBJ_ROOT)/$(BuildMode)/bin). This ensures that lit does not
333 invoke any stray LLVM tools in the user's path during testing.</p>
334
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]335 <p>Each RUN line is executed on its own, distinct from other lines unless
336 its last character is <tt>\</tt>. This continuation character causes the RUN
337 line to be concatenated with the next one. In this way you can build up long
338 pipelines of commands without making huge line lengths. The lines ending in
339 <tt>\</tt> are concatenated until a RUN line that doesn't end in <tt>\</tt> is
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]340 found. This concatenated set of RUN lines then constitutes one execution.
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]341 Tcl will substitute variables and arrange for the pipeline to be executed. If
342 any process in the pipeline fails, the entire line (and test case) fails too.
343 </p>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]344
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]345 <p> Below is an example of legal RUN lines in a <tt>.ll</tt> file:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]346
347<div class="doc_code">
348<pre>
349; RUN: llvm-as &lt; %s | llvm-dis &gt; %t1
350; RUN: llvm-dis &lt; %s.bc-13 &gt; %t2
351; RUN: diff %t1 %t2
352</pre>
353</div>
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]354
Reid Spencer024a1262007-04-14 23:27:06 +0000[diff] [blame]355 <p>As with a Unix shell, the RUN: lines permit pipelines and I/O redirection
356 to be used. However, the usage is slightly different than for Bash. To check
357 what's legal, see the documentation for the
358 <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/exec.htm#M2">Tcl exec</a>
359 command and the
360 <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl26.html">tutorial</a>.
361 The major differences are:</p>
362 <ul>
363 <li>You can't do <tt>2&gt;&amp;1</tt>. That will cause Tcl to write to a
364 file named <tt>&amp;1</tt>. Usually this is done to get stderr to go through
365 a pipe. You can do that in tcl with <tt>|&amp;</tt> so replace this idiom:
366 <tt>... 2&gt;&amp;1 | grep</tt> with <tt>... |&amp; grep</tt></li>
367 <li>You can only redirect to a file, not to another descriptor and not from
368 a here document.</li>
369 <li>tcl supports redirecting to open files with the @ syntax but you
370 shouldn't use that here.</li>
371 </ul>
372
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]373 <p>There are some quoting rules that you must pay attention to when writing
374 your RUN lines. In general nothing needs to be quoted. Tcl won't strip off any
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]375 quote characters so they will get passed to the invoked program. For
376 example:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]377
378<div class="doc_code">
379<pre>
380... | grep 'find this string'
381</pre>
382</div>
383
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]384 <p>This will fail because the ' characters are passed to grep. This would
385 instruction grep to look for <tt>'find</tt> in the files <tt>this</tt> and
386 <tt>string'</tt>. To avoid this use curly braces to tell Tcl that it should
387 treat everything enclosed as one value. So our example would become:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]388
389<div class="doc_code">
390<pre>
391... | grep {find this string}
392</pre>
393</div>
394
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]395 <p>Additionally, the characters <tt>[</tt> and <tt>]</tt> are treated
396 specially by Tcl. They tell Tcl to interpret the content as a command to
397 execute. Since these characters are often used in regular expressions this can
398 have disastrous results and cause the entire test run in a directory to fail.
399 For example, a common idiom is to look for some basicblock number:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]400
401<div class="doc_code">
402<pre>
403... | grep bb[2-8]
404</pre>
405</div>
406
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]407 <p>This, however, will cause Tcl to fail because its going to try to execute
408 a program named "2-8". Instead, what you want is this:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]409
410<div class="doc_code">
411<pre>
412... | grep {bb\[2-8\]}
413</pre>
414</div>
415
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]416 <p>Finally, if you need to pass the <tt>\</tt> character down to a program,
417 then it must be doubled. This is another Tcl special character. So, suppose
418 you had:
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]419
420<div class="doc_code">
421<pre>
422... | grep 'i32\*'
423</pre>
424</div>
425
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]426 <p>This will fail to match what you want (a pointer to i32). First, the
427 <tt>'</tt> do not get stripped off. Second, the <tt>\</tt> gets stripped off
428 by Tcl so what grep sees is: <tt>'i32*'</tt>. That's not likely to match
429 anything. To resolve this you must use <tt>\\</tt> and the <tt>{}</tt>, like
430 this:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]431
432<div class="doc_code">
433<pre>
434... | grep {i32\\*}
435</pre>
436</div>
Reid Spencerf1902772007-04-15 08:01:04 +0000[diff] [blame]437
Shantonu Sen1b6d3da2009-06-26 05:44:53 +0000[diff] [blame]438<p>If your system includes GNU <tt>grep</tt>, make sure
439that <tt>GREP_OPTIONS</tt> is not set in your environment. Otherwise,
440you may get invalid results (both false positives and false
441negatives).</p>
442
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]443</div>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]444
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]445<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]446<h3><a name="FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></h3>
Chris Lattner3d2de1d2009-08-15 15:40:48 +0000[diff] [blame]447<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
448
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]449<div>
Chris Lattner3d2de1d2009-08-15 15:40:48 +0000[diff] [blame]450
451<p>A powerful feature of the RUN: lines is that it allows any arbitrary commands
452 to be executed as part of the test harness. While standard (portable) unix
453 tools like 'grep' work fine on run lines, as you see above, there are a lot
Chris Lattner272e3082009-08-15 16:51:06 +0000[diff] [blame]454 of caveats due to interaction with Tcl syntax, and we want to make sure the
Chris Lattner3d2de1d2009-08-15 15:40:48 +0000[diff] [blame]455 run lines are portable to a wide range of systems. Another major problem is
456 that grep is not very good at checking to verify that the output of a tools
457 contains a series of different output in a specific order. The FileCheck
458 tool was designed to help with these problems.</p>
459
Chris Lattner272e3082009-08-15 16:51:06 +0000[diff] [blame]460<p>FileCheck (whose basic command line arguments are described in <a
461 href="http://llvm.org/cmds/FileCheck.html">the FileCheck man page</a> is
462 designed to read a file to check from standard input, and the set of things
463 to verify from a file specified as a command line argument. A simple example
464 of using FileCheck from a RUN line looks like this:</p>
465
466<div class="doc_code">
467<pre>
468; RUN: llvm-as &lt; %s | llc -march=x86-64 | <b>FileCheck %s</b>
469</pre>
470</div>
Chris Lattner3d2de1d2009-08-15 15:40:48 +0000[diff] [blame]471
Chris Lattner272e3082009-08-15 16:51:06 +0000[diff] [blame]472<p>This syntax says to pipe the current file ("%s") into llvm-as, pipe that into
473llc, then pipe the output of llc into FileCheck. This means that FileCheck will
474be verifying its standard input (the llc output) against the filename argument
475specified (the original .ll file specified by "%s"). To see how this works,
Eli Benderskyecc754d2012-04-18 08:02:25 +0000[diff] [blame^]476let's look at the rest of the .ll file (after the RUN line):</p>
Chris Lattner272e3082009-08-15 16:51:06 +0000[diff] [blame]477
478<div class="doc_code">
479<pre>
480define void @sub1(i32* %p, i32 %v) {
481entry:
482; <b>CHECK: sub1:</b>
483; <b>CHECK: subl</b>
484 %0 = tail call i32 @llvm.atomic.load.sub.i32.p0i32(i32* %p, i32 %v)
485 ret void
486}
487
488define void @inc4(i64* %p) {
489entry:
490; <b>CHECK: inc4:</b>
491; <b>CHECK: incq</b>
492 %0 = tail call i64 @llvm.atomic.load.add.i64.p0i64(i64* %p, i64 1)
493 ret void
494}
495</pre>
496</div>
497
498<p>Here you can see some "CHECK:" lines specified in comments. Now you can see
499how the file is piped into llvm-as, then llc, and the machine code output is
500what we are verifying. FileCheck checks the machine code output to verify that
501it matches what the "CHECK:" lines specify.</p>
502
503<p>The syntax of the CHECK: lines is very simple: they are fixed strings that
504must occur in order. FileCheck defaults to ignoring horizontal whitespace
505differences (e.g. a space is allowed to match a tab) but otherwise, the contents
506of the CHECK: line is required to match some thing in the test file exactly.</p>
507
508<p>One nice thing about FileCheck (compared to grep) is that it allows merging
509test cases together into logical groups. For example, because the test above
510is checking for the "sub1:" and "inc4:" labels, it will not match unless there
511is a "subl" in between those labels. If it existed somewhere else in the file,
512that would not count: "grep subl" matches if subl exists anywhere in the
513file.</p>
514
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]515<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]516<h4>
517 <a name="FileCheck-check-prefix">The FileCheck -check-prefix option</a>
518</h4>
Chris Lattner272e3082009-08-15 16:51:06 +0000[diff] [blame]519
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]520<div>
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]521
Chris Lattner272e3082009-08-15 16:51:06 +0000[diff] [blame]522<p>The FileCheck -check-prefix option allows multiple test configurations to be
523driven from one .ll file. This is useful in many circumstances, for example,
524testing different architectural variants with llc. Here's a simple example:</p>
525
Chris Lattner272e3082009-08-15 16:51:06 +0000[diff] [blame]526<div class="doc_code">
527<pre>
528; RUN: llvm-as &lt; %s | llc -mtriple=i686-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \
529; RUN: | <b>FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X32</b>
530; RUN: llvm-as &lt; %s | llc -mtriple=x86_64-apple-darwin9 -mattr=sse41 \
531; RUN: | <b>FileCheck %s -check-prefix=X64</b>
532
533define &lt;4 x i32&gt; @pinsrd_1(i32 %s, &lt;4 x i32&gt; %tmp) nounwind {
534 %tmp1 = insertelement &lt;4 x i32&gt; %tmp, i32 %s, i32 1
535 ret &lt;4 x i32&gt; %tmp1
536; <b>X32:</b> pinsrd_1:
537; <b>X32:</b> pinsrd $1, 4(%esp), %xmm0
538
539; <b>X64:</b> pinsrd_1:
540; <b>X64:</b> pinsrd $1, %edi, %xmm0
541}
542</pre>
543</div>
544
545<p>In this case, we're testing that we get the expected code generation with
546both 32-bit and 64-bit code generation.</p>
547
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]548</div>
549
550<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]551<h4>
552 <a name="FileCheck-CHECK-NEXT">The "CHECK-NEXT:" directive</a>
553</h4>
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]554
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]555<div>
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]556
557<p>Sometimes you want to match lines and would like to verify that matches
Duncan Sandsab4c3662011-02-15 09:23:02 +0000[diff] [blame]558happen on exactly consecutive lines with no other lines in between them. In
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]559this case, you can use CHECK: and CHECK-NEXT: directives to specify this. If
560you specified a custom check prefix, just use "&lt;PREFIX&gt;-NEXT:". For
561example, something like this works as you'd expect:</p>
562
563<div class="doc_code">
564<pre>
Chris Lattnere93f3732009-08-15 18:33:10 +0000[diff] [blame]565define void @t2(&lt;2 x double&gt;* %r, &lt;2 x double&gt;* %A, double %B) {
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]566 %tmp3 = load &lt;2 x double&gt;* %A, align 16
567 %tmp7 = insertelement &lt;2 x double&gt; undef, double %B, i32 0
Chris Lattnere93f3732009-08-15 18:33:10 +0000[diff] [blame]568 %tmp9 = shufflevector &lt;2 x double&gt; %tmp3,
569 &lt;2 x double&gt; %tmp7,
570 &lt;2 x i32&gt; &lt; i32 0, i32 2 &gt;
Chris Lattner5dafafd2009-08-15 18:32:21 +0000[diff] [blame]571 store &lt;2 x double&gt; %tmp9, &lt;2 x double&gt;* %r, align 16
572 ret void
573
574; <b>CHECK:</b> t2:
575; <b>CHECK:</b> movl 8(%esp), %eax
576; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> movapd (%eax), %xmm0
577; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> movhpd 12(%esp), %xmm0
578; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> movl 4(%esp), %eax
579; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> movapd %xmm0, (%eax)
580; <b>CHECK-NEXT:</b> ret
581}
582</pre>
583</div>
584
585<p>CHECK-NEXT: directives reject the input unless there is exactly one newline
586between it an the previous directive. A CHECK-NEXT cannot be the first
587directive in a file.</p>
Chris Lattner3d2de1d2009-08-15 15:40:48 +0000[diff] [blame]588
589</div>
590
591<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]592<h4>
593 <a name="FileCheck-CHECK-NOT">The "CHECK-NOT:" directive</a>
594</h4>
Chris Lattnerf15380b2009-09-20 22:35:26 +0000[diff] [blame]595
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]596<div>
Chris Lattnerf15380b2009-09-20 22:35:26 +0000[diff] [blame]597
598<p>The CHECK-NOT: directive is used to verify that a string doesn't occur
Chris Lattner4d0764d2009-09-20 22:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]599between two matches (or the first match and the beginning of the file). For
Chris Lattnerf15380b2009-09-20 22:35:26 +0000[diff] [blame]600example, to verify that a load is removed by a transformation, a test like this
601can be used:</p>
602
603<div class="doc_code">
604<pre>
605define i8 @coerce_offset0(i32 %V, i32* %P) {
606 store i32 %V, i32* %P
607
608 %P2 = bitcast i32* %P to i8*
609 %P3 = getelementptr i8* %P2, i32 2
610
611 %A = load i8* %P3
612 ret i8 %A
613; <b>CHECK:</b> @coerce_offset0
614; <b>CHECK-NOT:</b> load
615; <b>CHECK:</b> ret i8
616}
617</pre>
618</div>
619
620</div>
621
622<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]623<h4>
624 <a name="FileCheck-Matching">FileCheck Pattern Matching Syntax</a>
625</h4>
Chris Lattner52870082009-09-24 21:47:32 +0000[diff] [blame]626
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]627<div>
Chris Lattner52870082009-09-24 21:47:32 +0000[diff] [blame]628
629<p>The CHECK: and CHECK-NOT: directives both take a pattern to match. For most
630uses of FileCheck, fixed string matching is perfectly sufficient. For some
631things, a more flexible form of matching is desired. To support this, FileCheck
632allows you to specify regular expressions in matching strings, surrounded by
633double braces: <b>{{yourregex}}</b>. Because we want to use fixed string
634matching for a majority of what we do, FileCheck has been designed to support
635mixing and matching fixed string matching with regular expressions. This allows
636you to write things like this:</p>
637
638<div class="doc_code">
639<pre>
640; CHECK: movhpd <b>{{[0-9]+}}</b>(%esp), <b>{{%xmm[0-7]}}</b>
641</pre>
642</div>
643
644<p>In this case, any offset from the ESP register will be allowed, and any xmm
645register will be allowed.</p>
646
647<p>Because regular expressions are enclosed with double braces, they are
648visually distinct, and you don't need to use escape characters within the double
649braces like you would in C. In the rare case that you want to match double
650braces explicitly from the input, you can use something ugly like
651<b>{{[{][{]}}</b> as your pattern.</p>
652
653</div>
654
Chris Lattnereec96952009-09-27 07:56:52 +0000[diff] [blame]655<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]656<h4>
657 <a name="FileCheck-Variables">FileCheck Variables</a>
658</h4>
Chris Lattner52870082009-09-24 21:47:32 +0000[diff] [blame]659
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]660<div>
Chris Lattnereec96952009-09-27 07:56:52 +0000[diff] [blame]661
662<p>It is often useful to match a pattern and then verify that it occurs again
663later in the file. For codegen tests, this can be useful to allow any register,
664but verify that that register is used consistently later. To do this, FileCheck
665allows named variables to be defined and substituted into patterns. Here is a
666simple example:</p>
667
668<div class="doc_code">
669<pre>
670; CHECK: test5:
Chris Lattner9217f6b2009-09-27 08:01:44 +0000[diff] [blame]671; CHECK: notw <b>[[REGISTER:%[a-z]+]]</b>
672; CHECK: andw {{.*}}<b>[[REGISTER]]</b>
Chris Lattnereec96952009-09-27 07:56:52 +0000[diff] [blame]673</pre>
674</div>
675
Chris Lattner9217f6b2009-09-27 08:01:44 +0000[diff] [blame]676<p>The first check line matches a regex (<tt>%[a-z]+</tt>) and captures it into
677the variables "REGISTER". The second line verifies that whatever is in REGISTER
678occurs later in the file after an "andw". FileCheck variable references are
679always contained in <tt>[[ ]]</tt> pairs, are named, and their names can be
680formed with the regex "<tt>[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*</tt>". If a colon follows the
681name, then it is a definition of the variable, if not, it is a use.</p>
Chris Lattnereec96952009-09-27 07:56:52 +0000[diff] [blame]682
683<p>FileCheck variables can be defined multiple times, and uses always get the
684latest value. Note that variables are all read at the start of a "CHECK" line
685and are all defined at the end. This means that if you have something like
686"<tt>CHECK: [[XYZ:.*]]x[[XYZ]]</tt>" that the check line will read the previous
687value of the XYZ variable and define a new one after the match is performed. If
688you need to do something like this you can probably take advantage of the fact
689that FileCheck is not actually line-oriented when it matches, this allows you to
690define two separate CHECK lines that match on the same line.
691</p>
692
Chris Lattnereec96952009-09-27 07:56:52 +0000[diff] [blame]693</div>
Chris Lattner52870082009-09-24 21:47:32 +0000[diff] [blame]694
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]695</div>
696
Chris Lattner52870082009-09-24 21:47:32 +0000[diff] [blame]697<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]698<h3><a name="rtvars">Variables and substitutions</a></h3>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]699<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]700<div>
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]701 <p>With a RUN line there are a number of substitutions that are permitted. In
702 general, any Tcl variable that is available in the <tt>substitute</tt>
703 function (in <tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) can be substituted into a RUN line.
704 To make a substitution just write the variable's name preceded by a $.
705 Additionally, for compatibility reasons with previous versions of the test
706 library, certain names can be accessed with an alternate syntax: a % prefix.
707 These alternates are deprecated and may go away in a future version.
708 </p>
Bill Wendlingeb6aace2007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000[diff] [blame]709 <p>Here are the available variable names. The alternate syntax is listed in
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]710 parentheses.</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]711
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]712 <dl style="margin-left: 25px">
713 <dt><b>$test</b> (%s)</dt>
714 <dd>The full path to the test case's source. This is suitable for passing
715 on the command line as the input to an llvm tool.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]716
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]717 <dt><b>$srcdir</b></dt>
718 <dd>The source directory from where the "<tt>make check</tt>" was run.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]719
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]720 <dt><b>objdir</b></dt>
Bill Wendlingeb6aace2007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000[diff] [blame]721 <dd>The object directory that corresponds to the <tt>$srcdir</tt>.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]722
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]723 <dt><b>subdir</b></dt>
724 <dd>A partial path from the <tt>test</tt> directory that contains the
725 sub-directory that contains the test source being executed.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]726
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]727 <dt><b>srcroot</b></dt>
728 <dd>The root directory of the LLVM src tree.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]729
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]730 <dt><b>objroot</b></dt>
731 <dd>The root directory of the LLVM object tree. This could be the same
732 as the srcroot.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]733
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]734 <dt><b>path</b><dt>
735 <dd>The path to the directory that contains the test case source. This is
736 for locating any supporting files that are not generated by the test, but
737 used by the test.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]738
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]739 <dt><b>tmp</b></dt>
740 <dd>The path to a temporary file name that could be used for this test case.
741 The file name won't conflict with other test cases. You can append to it if
742 you need multiple temporaries. This is useful as the destination of some
743 redirected output.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]744
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]745 <dt><b>target_triplet</b> (%target_triplet)</dt>
746 <dd>The target triplet that corresponds to the current host machine (the one
747 running the test cases). This should probably be called "host".<dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]748
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]749 <dt><b>link</b> (%link)</dt>
750 <dd>This full link command used to link LLVM executables. This has all the
751 configured -I, -L and -l options.</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]752
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]753 <dt><b>shlibext</b> (%shlibext)</dt>
754 <dd>The suffix for the host platforms share library (dll) files. This
755 includes the period as the first character.</dd>
756 </dl>
757 <p>To add more variables, two things need to be changed. First, add a line in
758 the <tt>test/Makefile</tt> that creates the <tt>site.exp</tt> file. This will
759 "set" the variable as a global in the site.exp file. Second, in the
760 <tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt> file, in the substitute proc, add the variable name
761 to the list of "global" declarations at the beginning of the proc. That's it,
762 the variable can then be used in test scripts.</p>
763</div>
764
765<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumi05d02652011-04-18 23:59:50 +0000[diff] [blame]766<h3><a name="rtfeatures">Other Features</a></h3>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]767<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]768<div>
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]769 <p>To make RUN line writing easier, there are several shell scripts located
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]770 in the <tt>llvm/test/Scripts</tt> directory. This directory is in the PATH
771 when running tests, so you can just call these scripts using their name. For
772 example:</p>
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]773 <dl>
774 <dt><b>ignore</b></dt>
775 <dd>This script runs its arguments and then always returns 0. This is useful
776 in cases where the test needs to cause a tool to generate an error (e.g. to
777 check the error output). However, any program in a pipeline that returns a
778 non-zero result will cause the test to fail. This script overcomes that
779 issue and nicely documents that the test case is purposefully ignoring the
780 result code of the tool</dd>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]781
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]782 <dt><b>not</b></dt>
783 <dd>This script runs its arguments and then inverts the result code from
784 it. Zero result codes become 1. Non-zero result codes become 0. This is
785 useful to invert the result of a grep. For example "not grep X" means
786 succeed only if you don't find X in the input.</dd>
787 </dl>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]788
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]789 <p>Sometimes it is necessary to mark a test case as "expected fail" or XFAIL.
Daniel Dunbar3d4d01b2010-02-23 07:56:28 +0000[diff] [blame]790 You can easily mark a test as XFAIL just by including <tt>XFAIL: </tt> on a
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]791 line near the top of the file. This signals that the test case should succeed
Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]792 if the test fails. Such test cases are counted separately by the testing tool. To
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]793 specify an expected fail, use the XFAIL keyword in the comments of the test
794 program followed by a colon and one or more regular expressions (separated by
Daniel Dunbar3d4d01b2010-02-23 07:56:28 +0000[diff] [blame]795 a comma). The regular expressions allow you to XFAIL the test conditionally by
796 host platform. The regular expressions following the : are matched against the
797 target triplet for the host machine. If there is a match, the test is expected
798 to fail. If not, the test is expected to succeed. To XFAIL everywhere just
799 specify <tt>XFAIL: *</tt>. Here is an example of an <tt>XFAIL</tt> line:</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]800
801<div class="doc_code">
802<pre>
Daniel Dunbar3d4d01b2010-02-23 07:56:28 +0000[diff] [blame]803; XFAIL: darwin,sun
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]804</pre>
805</div>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]806
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]807 <p>To make the output more useful, the <tt>llvm_runtest</tt> function wil
808 scan the lines of the test case for ones that contain a pattern that matches
809 PR[0-9]+. This is the syntax for specifying a PR (Problem Report) number that
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]810 is related to the test case. The number after "PR" specifies the LLVM bugzilla
Reid Spencerbbb2a7a2007-04-14 21:46:15 +0000[diff] [blame]811 number. When a PR number is specified, it will be used in the pass/fail
812 reporting. This is useful to quickly get some context when a test fails.</p>
813
814 <p>Finally, any line that contains "END." will cause the special
815 interpretation of lines to terminate. This is generally done right after the
816 last RUN: line. This has two side effects: (a) it prevents special
817 interpretation of lines that are part of the test program, not the
818 instructions to the test case, and (b) it speeds things up for really big test
819 cases by avoiding interpretation of the remainder of the file.</p>
Tanya Lattner5026c7f2004-12-06 02:11:52 +0000[diff] [blame]820
821</div>
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]822
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]823</div>
824
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]825<!--=========================================================================-->
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]826<h2><a name="testsuiteoverview"><tt>test-suite</tt> Overview</a></h2>
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]827<!--=========================================================================-->
John Criswell020cbd82003-10-10 18:42:49 +0000[diff] [blame]828
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]829<div>
Brian Gaekeaf19f2e2003-10-23 18:10:28 +0000[diff] [blame]830
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]831<p>The <tt>test-suite</tt> module contains a number of programs that can be
832compiled and executed. The <tt>test-suite</tt> includes reference outputs for
833all of the programs, so that the output of the executed program can be checked
834for correctness.</p>
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]835
Andrew Trickbcf01162010-09-23 20:26:44 +0000[diff] [blame]836<p><tt>test-suite</tt> tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource,
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]837SingleSource, and External.</p>
Reid Spencer3281ead2004-12-08 16:52:51 +0000[diff] [blame]838
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]839<ul>
Andrew Trickbcf01162010-09-23 20:26:44 +0000[diff] [blame]840<li><tt>test-suite/SingleSource</tt>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]841<p>The SingleSource directory contains test programs that are only a single
842source file in size. These are usually small benchmark programs or small
843programs that calculate a particular value. Several such programs are grouped
844together in each directory.</p></li>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]845
Andrew Trickbcf01162010-09-23 20:26:44 +0000[diff] [blame]846<li><tt>test-suite/MultiSource</tt>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]847<p>The MultiSource directory contains subdirectories which contain entire
848programs with multiple source files. Large benchmarks and whole applications
849go here.</p></li>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]850
Andrew Trickbcf01162010-09-23 20:26:44 +0000[diff] [blame]851<li><tt>test-suite/External</tt>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]852<p>The External directory contains Makefiles for building code that is external
853to (i.e., not distributed with) LLVM. The most prominent members of this
854directory are the SPEC 95 and SPEC 2000 benchmark suites. The <tt>External</tt>
Stuart Hastingsc4c268b2009-05-21 20:23:59 +0000[diff] [blame]855directory does not contain these actual tests, but only the Makefiles that know
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]856how to properly compile these programs from somewhere else. When
857using <tt>LNT</tt>, use the <tt>--test-externals</tt> option to include these
858tests in the results.</p></li>
Matthijs Kooijman6fce8442008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000[diff] [blame]859</ul>
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]860</div>
861
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]862<!--=========================================================================-->
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]863<h2><a name="testsuitequickstart"><tt>test-suite</tt> Quickstart</a></h2>
Reid Spencer8284f1f2004-09-05 20:07:26 +0000[diff] [blame]864<!--=========================================================================-->
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]865
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]866<div>
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]867<p>The modern way of running the <tt>test-suite</tt> is focused on testing and
868benchmarking complete compilers using
869the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/lnt">LNT</a> testing infrastructure.</p>
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]870
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]871<p>For more information on using LNT to execute the <tt>test-suite</tt>, please
872see the <a href="http://llvm.org/docs/lnt/quickstart.html">LNT Quickstart</a>
873documentation.</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]874</div>
Matthijs Kooijmand30020a2008-05-20 10:28:55 +0000[diff] [blame]875
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]876<!--=========================================================================-->
877<h2><a name="testsuitemakefiles"><tt>test-suite</tt> Makefiles</a></h2>
878<!--=========================================================================-->
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]879
NAKAMURA Takumif5af6ad2011-04-23 00:30:22 +0000[diff] [blame]880<div>
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]881<p>Historically, the <tt>test-suite</tt> was executed using a complicated setup
882of Makefiles. The LNT based approach above is recommended for most users, but
883there are some testing scenarios which are not supported by the LNT approach. In
884addition, LNT currently uses the Makefile setup under the covers and so
885developers who are interested in how LNT works under the hood may want to
886understand the Makefile based setup.</p>
Bill Wendlingda51c4c2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000[diff] [blame]887
Daniel Dunbar90d9e022012-03-15 22:19:35 +0000[diff] [blame]888<p>For more information on the <tt>test-suite</tt> Makefile setup, please see
889the <a href="TestSuiteMakefileGuide.html">Test Suite Makefile Guide.</a></p>
Chris Lattnereb82da82006-05-23 01:40:20 +0000[diff] [blame]890</div>
891
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895<address>
896 <a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer"><img
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Daniel Dunbarcd3b1172010-08-02 01:20:23 +0000[diff] [blame]901 John T. Criswell, Daniel Dunbar, Reid Spencer, and Tanya Lattner<br>
NAKAMURA Takumib9a33632011-04-09 02:13:37 +0000[diff] [blame]902 <a href="http://llvm.org/">The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure</a><br>
Misha Brukman1d83e112004-03-01 18:21:04 +0000[diff] [blame]903 Last modified: $Date$
904</address>
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