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14<ol>
15 <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000016 <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
17 <li><a href="#org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000018 <ul>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000019 <li><a href="#dejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></li>
20 <li><a href="#testsuite">Test suite</a></li>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000021 </ul>
22 </li>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000023 <li><a href="#quick">Quick start</a>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000024 <ul>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000025 <li><a href="#quickdejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000026 <li><a href="#quicktestsuite">Test suite</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000027 </ul>
28 </li>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000029 <li><a href="#dgstructure">DejaGNU structure</a>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000030 <ul>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000031 <li><a href="#dgcustom">Writing new DejaGNU tests</a></li>
Chris Lattner00128372009-08-15 15:40:48 +000032 <li><a href="#FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000033 <li><a href="#dgvars">Variables and substitutions</a></li>
34 <li><a href="#dgfeatures">Other features</a></li>
35 </ul>
36 </li>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000037 <li><a href="#testsuitestructure">Test suite structure</a></li>
38 <li><a href="#testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000039 <ul>
Stuart Hastingsaa8f28e2009-05-21 20:23:59 +000040 <li><a href="#testsuiteexternal">Configuring External Tests</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000041 <li><a href="#testsuitetests">Running different tests</a></li>
42 <li><a href="#testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a></li>
43 <li><a href="#testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for llvm-test</a></li>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000044 </ul>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000045 </li>
46 <li><a href="#nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></li>
47</ol>
48
49<div class="doc_author">
50 <p>Written by John T. Criswell, <a
51 href="http://llvm.x10sys.com/rspencer">Reid Spencer</a>, and Tanya Lattner</p>
52</div>
53
54<!--=========================================================================-->
55<div class="doc_section"><a name="overview">Overview</a></div>
56<!--=========================================================================-->
57
58<div class="doc_text">
59
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000060<p>This document is the reference manual for the LLVM testing infrastructure. It documents
61the structure of the LLVM testing infrastructure, the tools needed to use it,
62and how to add and run tests.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000063
64</div>
65
66<!--=========================================================================-->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000067<div class="doc_section"><a name="requirements">Requirements</a></div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000068<!--=========================================================================-->
69
70<div class="doc_text">
71
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000072<p>In order to use the LLVM testing infrastructure, you will need all of the software
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000073required to build LLVM, plus the following:</p>
74
75<dl>
76<dt><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/dejagnu/">DejaGNU</a></dt>
77<dd>The Feature and Regressions tests are organized and run by DejaGNU.</dd>
78<dt><a href="http://expect.nist.gov/">Expect</a></dt>
79<dd>Expect is required by DejaGNU.</dd>
80<dt><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/">tcl</a></dt>
81<dd>Tcl is required by DejaGNU. </dd>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000082</dl>
83
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +000084</div>
85
86<!--=========================================================================-->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000087<div class="doc_section"><a name="org">LLVM testing infrastructure organization</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000088<!--=========================================================================-->
89
90<div class="doc_text">
91
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +000092<p>The LLVM testing infrastructure contains two major categories of tests: code
93fragments and whole programs. Code fragments are referred to as the "DejaGNU
94tests" and are in the <tt>llvm</tt> module in subversion under the
95<tt>llvm/test</tt> directory. The whole programs tests are referred to as the
96"Test suite" and are in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module in subversion.
97</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +000098
99</div>
100
101<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000102<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000103<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
104
105<div class="doc_text">
106
Shantonu Senc0a63b22009-06-26 05:44:53 +0000107<p>Code fragments are small pieces of code that test a specific
108feature of LLVM or trigger a specific bug in LLVM. They are usually
109written in LLVM assembly language, but can be written in other
110languages if the test targets a particular language front end (and the
111appropriate <tt>--with-llvmgcc</tt> options were used
112at <tt>configure</tt> time of the <tt>llvm</tt> module). These tests
113are driven by the DejaGNU testing framework, which is hidden behind a
114few simple makefiles.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000115
Shantonu Senc0a63b22009-06-26 05:44:53 +0000116<p>These code fragments are not complete programs. The code generated
117from them is never executed to determine correct behavior.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000118
119<p>These code fragment tests are located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt>
120directory.</p>
121
122<p>Typically when a bug is found in LLVM, a regression test containing
123just enough code to reproduce the problem should be written and placed
124somewhere underneath this directory. In most cases, this will be a small
125piece of LLVM assembly language code, often distilled from an actual
126application or benchmark.</p>
127
128</div>
129
130<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000131<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="testsuite">Test suite</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000132<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
133
134<div class="doc_text">
135
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000136<p>The test suite contains whole programs, which are pieces of
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000137code which can be compiled and linked into a stand-alone program that can be
138executed. These programs are generally written in high level languages such as
139C or C++, but sometimes they are written straight in LLVM assembly.</p>
140
141<p>These programs are compiled and then executed using several different
142methods (native compiler, LLVM C backend, LLVM JIT, LLVM native code generation,
143etc). The output of these programs is compared to ensure that LLVM is compiling
144the program correctly.</p>
145
146<p>In addition to compiling and executing programs, whole program tests serve as
147a way of benchmarking LLVM performance, both in terms of the efficiency of the
148programs generated as well as the speed with which LLVM compiles, optimizes, and
149generates code.</p>
150
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000151<p>The test-suite is located in the <tt>test-suite</tt> Subversion module.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000152
153</div>
154
155<!--=========================================================================-->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000156<div class="doc_section"><a name="quick">Quick start</a></div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000157<!--=========================================================================-->
158
159<div class="doc_text">
160
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000161 <p>The tests are located in two separate Subversion modules. The
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000162 DejaGNU tests are in the main "llvm" module under the directory
163 <tt>llvm/test</tt> (so you get these tests for free with the main llvm tree).
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000164 The more comprehensive test suite that includes whole
165programs in C and C++ is in the <tt>test-suite</tt> module. This module should
166be checked out to the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory (don't use another name
167then the default "test-suite", for then the test suite will be run every time
168you run <tt>make</tt> in the main <tt>llvm</tt> directory).
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000169When you <tt>configure</tt> the <tt>llvm</tt> module,
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000170the <tt>test-suite</tt> directory will be automatically configured.
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000171Alternatively, you can configure the <tt>test-suite</tt> module manually.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000172
173<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
174<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="quickdejagnu">DejaGNU tests</a></div>
175<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000176<p>To run all of the simple tests in LLVM using DejaGNU, use the master Makefile
177 in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000178
179<div class="doc_code">
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000180<pre>
181% gmake -C llvm/test
182</pre>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000183</div>
184
185<p>or</p>
186
187<div class="doc_code">
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000188<pre>
189% gmake check
190</pre>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000191</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000192
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000193<p>To run only a subdirectory of tests in <tt>llvm/test</tt> using DejaGNU (ie.
194Transforms), just set the TESTSUITE variable to the path of the
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000195subdirectory (relative to <tt>llvm/test</tt>):</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000196
197<div class="doc_code">
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000198<pre>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000199% gmake TESTSUITE=Transforms check
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000200</pre>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000201</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000202
203<p><b>Note: If you are running the tests with <tt>objdir != subdir</tt>, you
204must have run the complete testsuite before you can specify a
205subdirectory.</b></p>
206
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000207<p>To run only a single test, set <tt>TESTONE</tt> to its path (relative to
208<tt>llvm/test</tt>) and make the <tt>check-one</tt> target:</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000209
210<div class="doc_code">
211<pre>
212% gmake TESTONE=Feature/basictest.ll check-one
213</pre>
214</div>
215
Nuno Lopescae90102008-11-25 15:57:52 +0000216<p>To run the tests with Valgrind (Memcheck by default), just append
217<tt>VG=1</tt> to the commands above, e.g.:</p>
218
219<div class="doc_code">
220<pre>
221% gmake check VG=1
222</pre>
223</div>
224
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000225<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000226<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="quicktestsuite">Test suite</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000227<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
228
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000229<p>To run the comprehensive test suite (tests that compile and execute whole
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000230programs), first checkout and setup the <tt>test-suite</tt> module:</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000231
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000232<div class="doc_code">
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000233<pre>
234% cd llvm/projects
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000235% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk test-suite
Tanya Lattner0da51e82007-11-28 05:13:45 +0000236% cd ..
237% ./configure --with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000238</pre>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000239</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000240
Shantonu Senc0a63b22009-06-26 05:44:53 +0000241<p>where <tt>$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt> is the directory where
242you <em>installed</em> llvm-gcc, not it's src or obj
243dir. The <tt>--with-llvmgccdir</tt> option assumes that
244the <tt>llvm-gcc-4.2</tt> module was configured with
245<tt>--program-prefix=llvm-</tt>, and therefore that the C and C++
246compiler drivers are called <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> and <tt>llvm-g++</tt>
247respectively. If this is not the case,
248use <tt>--with-llvmgcc</tt>/<tt>--with-llvmgxx</tt> to specify each
249executable's location.</p>
250
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000251<p>Then, run the entire test suite by running make in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000252directory:</p>
253
254<div class="doc_code">
255<pre>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000256% cd projects/test-suite
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000257% gmake
258</pre>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000259</div>
260
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000261<p>Usually, running the "nightly" set of tests is a good idea, and you can also
262let it generate a report by running:</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000263
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000264<div class="doc_code">
265<pre>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000266% cd projects/test-suite
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000267% gmake TEST=nightly report report.html
268</pre>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000269</div>
270
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000271<p>Any of the above commands can also be run in a subdirectory of
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000272<tt>projects/test-suite</tt> to run the specified test only on the programs in
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000273that subdirectory.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000274
275</div>
276
277<!--=========================================================================-->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000278<div class="doc_section"><a name="dgstructure">DejaGNU structure</a></div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000279<!--=========================================================================-->
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000280<div class="doc_text">
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000281 <p>The LLVM DejaGNU tests are driven by DejaGNU together with GNU Make and are
282 located in the <tt>llvm/test</tt> directory.
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000283
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000284 <p>This directory contains a large array of small tests
285 that exercise various features of LLVM and to ensure that regressions do not
286 occur. The directory is broken into several sub-directories, each focused on
Bill Wendling650d3b32007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000287 a particular area of LLVM. A few of the important ones are:</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000288
Bill Wendling650d3b32007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000289 <ul>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000290 <li><tt>Analysis</tt>: checks Analysis passes.</li>
291 <li><tt>Archive</tt>: checks the Archive library.</li>
292 <li><tt>Assembler</tt>: checks Assembly reader/writer functionality.</li>
293 <li><tt>Bitcode</tt>: checks Bitcode reader/writer functionality.</li>
294 <li><tt>CodeGen</tt>: checks code generation and each target.</li>
295 <li><tt>Features</tt>: checks various features of the LLVM language.</li>
296 <li><tt>Linker</tt>: tests bitcode linking.</li>
297 <li><tt>Transforms</tt>: tests each of the scalar, IPO, and utility
298 transforms to ensure they make the right transformations.</li>
299 <li><tt>Verifier</tt>: tests the IR verifier.</li>
Bill Wendling650d3b32007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000300 </ul>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000301
302</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000303
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000304<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000305<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgcustom">Writing new DejaGNU tests</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000306<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
307<div class="doc_text">
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000308 <p>The DejaGNU structure is very simple, but does require some information to
309 be set. This information is gathered via <tt>configure</tt> and is written
310 to a file, <tt>site.exp</tt> in <tt>llvm/test</tt>. The <tt>llvm/test</tt>
311 Makefile does this work for you.</p>
312
313 <p>In order for DejaGNU to work, each directory of tests must have a
314 <tt>dg.exp</tt> file. DejaGNU looks for this file to determine how to run the
315 tests. This file is just a Tcl script and it can do anything you want, but
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000316 we've standardized it for the LLVM regression tests. If you're adding a
317 directory of tests, just copy <tt>dg.exp</tt> from another directory to get
318 running. The standard <tt>dg.exp</tt> simply loads a Tcl
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000319 library (<tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) and calls the <tt>llvm_runtests</tt>
320 function defined in that library with a list of file names to run. The names
321 are obtained by using Tcl's glob command. Any directory that contains only
322 directories does not need the <tt>dg.exp</tt> file.</p>
323
324 <p>The <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function lookas at each file that is passed to
325 it and gathers any lines together that match "RUN:". This are the "RUN" lines
326 that specify how the test is to be run. So, each test script must contain
327 RUN lines if it is to do anything. If there are no RUN lines, the
328 <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> function will issue an error and the test will
329 fail.</p>
330
331 <p>RUN lines are specified in the comments of the test program using the
332 keyword <tt>RUN</tt> followed by a colon, and lastly the command (pipeline)
333 to execute. Together, these lines form the "script" that
334 <tt>llvm-runtests</tt> executes to run the test case. The syntax of the
335 RUN lines is similar to a shell's syntax for pipelines including I/O
336 redirection and variable substitution. However, even though these lines
337 may <i>look</i> like a shell script, they are not. RUN lines are interpreted
338 directly by the Tcl <tt>exec</tt> command. They are never executed by a
339 shell. Consequently the syntax differs from normal shell script syntax in a
340 few ways. You can specify as many RUN lines as needed.</p>
341
342 <p>Each RUN line is executed on its own, distinct from other lines unless
343 its last character is <tt>\</tt>. This continuation character causes the RUN
344 line to be concatenated with the next one. In this way you can build up long
345 pipelines of commands without making huge line lengths. The lines ending in
346 <tt>\</tt> are concatenated until a RUN line that doesn't end in <tt>\</tt> is
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000347 found. This concatenated set of RUN lines then constitutes one execution.
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000348 Tcl will substitute variables and arrange for the pipeline to be executed. If
349 any process in the pipeline fails, the entire line (and test case) fails too.
350 </p>
351
352 <p> Below is an example of legal RUN lines in a <tt>.ll</tt> file:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000353
354<div class="doc_code">
355<pre>
356; RUN: llvm-as &lt; %s | llvm-dis &gt; %t1
357; RUN: llvm-dis &lt; %s.bc-13 &gt; %t2
358; RUN: diff %t1 %t2
359</pre>
360</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000361
362 <p>As with a Unix shell, the RUN: lines permit pipelines and I/O redirection
363 to be used. However, the usage is slightly different than for Bash. To check
364 what's legal, see the documentation for the
365 <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/exec.htm#M2">Tcl exec</a>
366 command and the
367 <a href="http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/Tcl26.html">tutorial</a>.
368 The major differences are:</p>
369 <ul>
370 <li>You can't do <tt>2&gt;&amp;1</tt>. That will cause Tcl to write to a
371 file named <tt>&amp;1</tt>. Usually this is done to get stderr to go through
372 a pipe. You can do that in tcl with <tt>|&amp;</tt> so replace this idiom:
373 <tt>... 2&gt;&amp;1 | grep</tt> with <tt>... |&amp; grep</tt></li>
374 <li>You can only redirect to a file, not to another descriptor and not from
375 a here document.</li>
376 <li>tcl supports redirecting to open files with the @ syntax but you
377 shouldn't use that here.</li>
378 </ul>
379
380 <p>There are some quoting rules that you must pay attention to when writing
381 your RUN lines. In general nothing needs to be quoted. Tcl won't strip off any
382 ' or " so they will get passed to the invoked program. For example:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000383
384<div class="doc_code">
385<pre>
386... | grep 'find this string'
387</pre>
388</div>
389
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000390 <p>This will fail because the ' characters are passed to grep. This would
391 instruction grep to look for <tt>'find</tt> in the files <tt>this</tt> and
392 <tt>string'</tt>. To avoid this use curly braces to tell Tcl that it should
393 treat everything enclosed as one value. So our example would become:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000394
395<div class="doc_code">
396<pre>
397... | grep {find this string}
398</pre>
399</div>
400
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000401 <p>Additionally, the characters <tt>[</tt> and <tt>]</tt> are treated
402 specially by Tcl. They tell Tcl to interpret the content as a command to
403 execute. Since these characters are often used in regular expressions this can
404 have disastrous results and cause the entire test run in a directory to fail.
405 For example, a common idiom is to look for some basicblock number:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000406
407<div class="doc_code">
408<pre>
409... | grep bb[2-8]
410</pre>
411</div>
412
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000413 <p>This, however, will cause Tcl to fail because its going to try to execute
414 a program named "2-8". Instead, what you want is this:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000415
416<div class="doc_code">
417<pre>
418... | grep {bb\[2-8\]}
419</pre>
420</div>
421
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000422 <p>Finally, if you need to pass the <tt>\</tt> character down to a program,
423 then it must be doubled. This is another Tcl special character. So, suppose
424 you had:
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000425
426<div class="doc_code">
427<pre>
428... | grep 'i32\*'
429</pre>
430</div>
431
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000432 <p>This will fail to match what you want (a pointer to i32). First, the
433 <tt>'</tt> do not get stripped off. Second, the <tt>\</tt> gets stripped off
434 by Tcl so what grep sees is: <tt>'i32*'</tt>. That's not likely to match
435 anything. To resolve this you must use <tt>\\</tt> and the <tt>{}</tt>, like
436 this:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000437
438<div class="doc_code">
439<pre>
440... | grep {i32\\*}
441</pre>
442</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000443
Shantonu Senc0a63b22009-06-26 05:44:53 +0000444<p>If your system includes GNU <tt>grep</tt>, make sure
445that <tt>GREP_OPTIONS</tt> is not set in your environment. Otherwise,
446you may get invalid results (both false positives and false
447negatives).</p>
448
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000449</div>
450
451<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Chris Lattner00128372009-08-15 15:40:48 +0000452<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="FileCheck">The FileCheck utility</a></div>
453<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
454
455<div class="doc_text">
456
457<p>A powerful feature of the RUN: lines is that it allows any arbitrary commands
458 to be executed as part of the test harness. While standard (portable) unix
459 tools like 'grep' work fine on run lines, as you see above, there are a lot
460 of caveats due to interaction with Tcl syntax, and we want to make that the
461 run lines are portable to a wide range of systems. Another major problem is
462 that grep is not very good at checking to verify that the output of a tools
463 contains a series of different output in a specific order. The FileCheck
464 tool was designed to help with these problems.</p>
465
466
467<!-- http://llvm.org/cmds/FileCheck.html -->
468
469</div>
470
471<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000472<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgvars">Variables and substitutions</a></div>
473<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000474<div class="doc_text">
475 <p>With a RUN line there are a number of substitutions that are permitted. In
476 general, any Tcl variable that is available in the <tt>substitute</tt>
477 function (in <tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt>) can be substituted into a RUN line.
478 To make a substitution just write the variable's name preceded by a $.
479 Additionally, for compatibility reasons with previous versions of the test
480 library, certain names can be accessed with an alternate syntax: a % prefix.
481 These alternates are deprecated and may go away in a future version.
482 </p>
Bill Wendling650d3b32007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000483 <p>Here are the available variable names. The alternate syntax is listed in
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000484 parentheses.</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000485
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000486 <dl style="margin-left: 25px">
487 <dt><b>$test</b> (%s)</dt>
488 <dd>The full path to the test case's source. This is suitable for passing
489 on the command line as the input to an llvm tool.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000490
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000491 <dt><b>$srcdir</b></dt>
492 <dd>The source directory from where the "<tt>make check</tt>" was run.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000493
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000494 <dt><b>objdir</b></dt>
Bill Wendling650d3b32007-09-22 09:20:07 +0000495 <dd>The object directory that corresponds to the <tt>$srcdir</tt>.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000496
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000497 <dt><b>subdir</b></dt>
498 <dd>A partial path from the <tt>test</tt> directory that contains the
499 sub-directory that contains the test source being executed.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000500
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000501 <dt><b>srcroot</b></dt>
502 <dd>The root directory of the LLVM src tree.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000503
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000504 <dt><b>objroot</b></dt>
505 <dd>The root directory of the LLVM object tree. This could be the same
506 as the srcroot.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000507
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000508 <dt><b>path</b><dt>
509 <dd>The path to the directory that contains the test case source. This is
510 for locating any supporting files that are not generated by the test, but
511 used by the test.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000512
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000513 <dt><b>tmp</b></dt>
514 <dd>The path to a temporary file name that could be used for this test case.
515 The file name won't conflict with other test cases. You can append to it if
516 you need multiple temporaries. This is useful as the destination of some
517 redirected output.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000518
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000519 <dt><b>llvmlibsdir</b> (%llvmlibsdir)</dt>
520 <dd>The directory where the LLVM libraries are located.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000521
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000522 <dt><b>target_triplet</b> (%target_triplet)</dt>
523 <dd>The target triplet that corresponds to the current host machine (the one
524 running the test cases). This should probably be called "host".<dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000525
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000526 <dt><b>prcontext</b> (%prcontext)</dt>
527 <dd>Path to the prcontext tcl script that prints some context around a
528 line that matches a pattern. This isn't strictly necessary as the test suite
529 is run with its PATH altered to include the test/Scripts directory where
530 the prcontext script is located. Note that this script is similar to
531 <tt>grep -C</tt> but you should use the <tt>prcontext</tt> script because
532 not all platforms support <tt>grep -C</tt>.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000533
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000534 <dt><b>llvmgcc</b> (%llvmgcc)</dt>
535 <dd>The full path to the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> executable as specified in the
536 configured LLVM environment</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000537
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000538 <dt><b>llvmgxx</b> (%llvmgxx)</dt>
539 <dd>The full path to the <tt>llvm-gxx</tt> executable as specified in the
540 configured LLVM environment</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000541
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000542 <dt><b>llvmgcc_version</b> (%llvmgcc_version)</dt>
543 <dd>The full version number of the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> executable.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000544
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000545 <dt><b>llvmgccmajvers</b> (%llvmgccmajvers)</dt>
546 <dd>The major version number of the <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> executable.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000547
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000548 <dt><b>gccpath</b></dt>
549 <dd>The full path to the C compiler used to <i>build </i> LLVM. Note that
550 this might not be gcc.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000551
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000552 <dt><b>gxxpath</b></dt>
553 <dd>The full path to the C++ compiler used to <i>build </i> LLVM. Note that
554 this might not be g++.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000555
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000556 <dt><b>compile_c</b> (%compile_c)</dt>
557 <dd>The full command line used to compile LLVM C source code. This has all
558 the configured -I, -D and optimization options.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000559
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000560 <dt><b>compile_cxx</b> (%compile_cxx)</dt>
561 <dd>The full command used to compile LLVM C++ source code. This has
562 all the configured -I, -D and optimization options.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000563
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000564 <dt><b>link</b> (%link)</dt>
565 <dd>This full link command used to link LLVM executables. This has all the
566 configured -I, -L and -l options.</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000567
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000568 <dt><b>shlibext</b> (%shlibext)</dt>
569 <dd>The suffix for the host platforms share library (dll) files. This
570 includes the period as the first character.</dd>
571 </dl>
572 <p>To add more variables, two things need to be changed. First, add a line in
573 the <tt>test/Makefile</tt> that creates the <tt>site.exp</tt> file. This will
574 "set" the variable as a global in the site.exp file. Second, in the
575 <tt>test/lib/llvm.exp</tt> file, in the substitute proc, add the variable name
576 to the list of "global" declarations at the beginning of the proc. That's it,
577 the variable can then be used in test scripts.</p>
578</div>
579
580<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
581<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="dgfeatures">Other Features</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000582<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000583<div class="doc_text">
584 <p>To make RUN line writing easier, there are several shell scripts located
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000585 in the <tt>llvm/test/Scripts</tt> directory. This directory is in the PATH
586 when running tests, so you can just call these scripts using their name. For
587 example:</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000588 <dl>
589 <dt><b>ignore</b></dt>
590 <dd>This script runs its arguments and then always returns 0. This is useful
591 in cases where the test needs to cause a tool to generate an error (e.g. to
592 check the error output). However, any program in a pipeline that returns a
593 non-zero result will cause the test to fail. This script overcomes that
594 issue and nicely documents that the test case is purposefully ignoring the
595 result code of the tool</dd>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000596
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000597 <dt><b>not</b></dt>
598 <dd>This script runs its arguments and then inverts the result code from
599 it. Zero result codes become 1. Non-zero result codes become 0. This is
600 useful to invert the result of a grep. For example "not grep X" means
601 succeed only if you don't find X in the input.</dd>
602 </dl>
603
604 <p>Sometimes it is necessary to mark a test case as "expected fail" or XFAIL.
605 You can easily mark a test as XFAIL just by including <tt>XFAIL: </tt> on a
606 line near the top of the file. This signals that the test case should succeed
607 if the test fails. Such test cases are counted separately by DejaGnu. To
608 specify an expected fail, use the XFAIL keyword in the comments of the test
609 program followed by a colon and one or more regular expressions (separated by
610 a comma). The regular expressions allow you to XFAIL the test conditionally
611 by host platform. The regular expressions following the : are matched against
612 the target triplet or llvmgcc version number for the host machine. If there is
613 a match, the test is expected to fail. If not, the test is expected to
614 succeed. To XFAIL everywhere just specify <tt>XFAIL: *</tt>. When matching
615 the llvm-gcc version, you can specify the major (e.g. 3) or full version
616 (i.e. 3.4) number. Here is an example of an <tt>XFAIL</tt> line:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000617
618<div class="doc_code">
619<pre>
620; XFAIL: darwin,sun,llvmgcc4
621</pre>
622</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000623
624 <p>To make the output more useful, the <tt>llvm_runtest</tt> function wil
625 scan the lines of the test case for ones that contain a pattern that matches
626 PR[0-9]+. This is the syntax for specifying a PR (Problem Report) number that
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000627 is related to the test case. The number after "PR" specifies the LLVM bugzilla
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000628 number. When a PR number is specified, it will be used in the pass/fail
629 reporting. This is useful to quickly get some context when a test fails.</p>
630
631 <p>Finally, any line that contains "END." will cause the special
632 interpretation of lines to terminate. This is generally done right after the
633 last RUN: line. This has two side effects: (a) it prevents special
634 interpretation of lines that are part of the test program, not the
635 instructions to the test case, and (b) it speeds things up for really big test
636 cases by avoiding interpretation of the remainder of the file.</p>
637
638</div>
639
640<!--=========================================================================-->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000641<div class="doc_section"><a name="testsuitestructure">Test suite
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000642Structure</a></div>
643<!--=========================================================================-->
644
645<div class="doc_text">
646
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000647<p>The <tt>test-suite</tt> module contains a number of programs that can be compiled
648with LLVM and executed. These programs are compiled using the native compiler
649and various LLVM backends. The output from the program compiled with the
650native compiler is assumed correct; the results from the other programs are
651compared to the native program output and pass if they match.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000652
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000653<p>When executing tests, it is usually a good idea to start out with a subset of
654the available tests or programs. This makes test run times smaller at first and
655later on this is useful to investigate individual test failures. To run some
656test only on a subset of programs, simply change directory to the programs you
657want tested and run <tt>gmake</tt> there. Alternatively, you can run a different
658test using the <tt>TEST</tt> variable to change what tests or run on the
659selected programs (see below for more info).</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000660
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000661<p>In addition for testing correctness, the <tt>llvm-test</tt> directory also
662performs timing tests of various LLVM optimizations. It also records
663compilation times for the compilers and the JIT. This information can be
664used to compare the effectiveness of LLVM's optimizations and code
665generation.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000666
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000667<p><tt>llvm-test</tt> tests are divided into three types of tests: MultiSource,
668SingleSource, and External.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000669
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000670<ul>
671<li><tt>llvm-test/SingleSource</tt>
672<p>The SingleSource directory contains test programs that are only a single
673source file in size. These are usually small benchmark programs or small
674programs that calculate a particular value. Several such programs are grouped
675together in each directory.</p></li>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000676
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000677<li><tt>llvm-test/MultiSource</tt>
678<p>The MultiSource directory contains subdirectories which contain entire
679programs with multiple source files. Large benchmarks and whole applications
680go here.</p></li>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000681
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000682<li><tt>llvm-test/External</tt>
683<p>The External directory contains Makefiles for building code that is external
684to (i.e., not distributed with) LLVM. The most prominent members of this
685directory are the SPEC 95 and SPEC 2000 benchmark suites. The <tt>External</tt>
Stuart Hastingsaa8f28e2009-05-21 20:23:59 +0000686directory does not contain these actual tests, but only the Makefiles that know
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000687how to properly compile these programs from somewhere else. The presence and
688location of these external programs is configured by the llvm-test
689<tt>configure</tt> script.</p></li>
690</ul>
691
692<p>Each tree is then subdivided into several categories, including applications,
693benchmarks, regression tests, code that is strange grammatically, etc. These
694organizations should be relatively self explanatory.</p>
695
696<p>Some tests are known to fail. Some are bugs that we have not fixed yet;
697others are features that we haven't added yet (or may never add). In DejaGNU,
698the result for such tests will be XFAIL (eXpected FAILure). In this way, you
699can tell the difference between an expected and unexpected failure.</p>
700
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000701<p>The tests in the test suite have no such feature at this time. If the
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000702test passes, only warnings and other miscellaneous output will be generated. If
703a test fails, a large &lt;program&gt; FAILED message will be displayed. This
704will help you separate benign warnings from actual test failures.</p>
705
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000706</div>
707
708<!--=========================================================================-->
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000709<div class="doc_section"><a name="testsuiterun">Running the test suite</a></div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000710<!--=========================================================================-->
711
712<div class="doc_text">
713
714<p>First, all tests are executed within the LLVM object directory tree. They
715<i>are not</i> executed inside of the LLVM source tree. This is because the
John Mosby8102e9d2009-03-30 18:56:53 +0000716test suite creates temporary files during execution.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000717
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000718<p>To run the test suite, you need to use the following steps:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000719
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000720<ol>
John Mosby2bdcc042009-03-30 04:37:51 +0000721 <li><tt>cd</tt> into the <tt>llvm/projects</tt> directory in your source tree.
722 </li>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000723
724 <li><p>Check out the <tt>test-suite</tt> module with:</p>
725
726<div class="doc_code">
727<pre>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000728% svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/test-suite/trunk test-suite
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000729</pre>
730</div>
Stuart Hastingsaa8f28e2009-05-21 20:23:59 +0000731 <p>This will get the test suite into <tt>llvm/projects/test-suite</tt>.</p>
John Mosby2bdcc042009-03-30 04:37:51 +0000732 </li>
Stuart Hastingsaa8f28e2009-05-21 20:23:59 +0000733 <li><p>Configure and build <tt>llvm</tt>.</p></li>
734 <li><p>Configure and build <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>.</p></li>
735 <li><p>Install <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> somewhere.</p></li>
736 <li><p><em>Re-configure</em> <tt>llvm</tt> from the top level of
737 each build tree (LLVM object directory tree) in which you want
738 to run the test suite, just as you do before building LLVM.</p>
739 <p>During the <em>re-configuration</em>, you must either: (1)
740 have <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> you just built in your path, or (2)
741 specify the directory where your just-built <tt>llvm-gcc</tt> is
742 installed using <tt>--with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt>.</p>
743 <p>You must also tell the configure machinery that the test suite
744 is available so it can be configured for your build tree:</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000745<div class="doc_code">
746<pre>
John Mosby2bdcc042009-03-30 04:37:51 +0000747% cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT ; $LLVM_SRC_ROOT/configure [--with-llvmgccdir=$LLVM_GCC_DIR]
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000748</pre>
749</div>
John Mosby2bdcc042009-03-30 04:37:51 +0000750 <p>[Remember that <tt>$LLVM_GCC_DIR</tt> is the directory where you
751 <em>installed</em> llvm-gcc, not its src or obj directory.]</p>
Matthijs Kooijmanc987d702008-05-20 10:28:55 +0000752 </li>
753
John Mosby2bdcc042009-03-30 04:37:51 +0000754 <li><p>You can now run the test suite from your build tree as follows:</p>
755<div class="doc_code">
756<pre>
757% cd $LLVM_OBJ_ROOT/projects/test-suite
758% make
759</pre>
760</div>
761 </li>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000762</ol>
763<p>Note that the second and third steps only need to be done once. After you
764have the suite checked out and configured, you don't need to do it again (unless
Matthijs Kooijmanc987d702008-05-20 10:28:55 +0000765the test code or configure script changes).</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000766
Shantonu Senc0a63b22009-06-26 05:44:53 +0000767</div>
768
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000769<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
770<div class="doc_subsection">
Stuart Hastingsaa8f28e2009-05-21 20:23:59 +0000771<a name="testsuiteexternal">Configuring External Tests</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000772<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000773
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000774<div class="doc_text">
Stuart Hastingsaa8f28e2009-05-21 20:23:59 +0000775<p>In order to run the External tests in the <tt>test-suite</tt>
776 module, you must specify <i>--with-externals</i>. This
777 must be done during the <em>re-configuration</em> step (see above),
778 and the <tt>llvm</tt> re-configuration must recognize the
779 previously-built <tt>llvm-gcc</tt>. If any of these is missing or
780 neglected, the External tests won't work.</p>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000781<dl>
Dale Johannesena1840822008-12-10 01:58:32 +0000782<dt><i>--with-externals</i></dt>
783<dt><i>--with-externals=&lt;<tt>directory</tt>&gt;</i></dt>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000784</dl>
Dale Johannesena1840822008-12-10 01:58:32 +0000785 This tells LLVM where to find any external tests. They are expected to be
786 in specifically named subdirectories of &lt;<tt>directory</tt>&gt;.
787 If <tt>directory</tt> is left unspecified,
788 <tt>configure</tt> uses the default value
789 <tt>/home/vadve/shared/benchmarks/speccpu2000/benchspec</tt>.
790 Subdirectory names known to LLVM include:
791 <dl>
792 <dt>spec95</dt>
793 <dt>speccpu2000</dt>
794 <dt>speccpu2006</dt>
795 <dt>povray31</dt>
796 </dl>
797 Others are added from time to time, and can be determined from
798 <tt>configure</tt>.
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000799</div>
800
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000801<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
802<div class="doc_subsection">
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000803<a name="testsuitetests">Running different tests</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000804<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
805<div class="doc_text">
Stuart Hastingsaa8f28e2009-05-21 20:23:59 +0000806<p>In addition to the regular "whole program" tests, the <tt>test-suite</tt>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000807module also provides a mechanism for compiling the programs in different ways.
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000808If the variable TEST is defined on the <tt>gmake</tt> command line, the test system will
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000809include a Makefile named <tt>TEST.&lt;value of TEST variable&gt;.Makefile</tt>.
810This Makefile can modify build rules to yield different results.</p>
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000811
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000812<p>For example, the LLVM nightly tester uses <tt>TEST.nightly.Makefile</tt> to
813create the nightly test reports. To run the nightly tests, run <tt>gmake
814TEST=nightly</tt>.</p>
815
816<p>There are several TEST Makefiles available in the tree. Some of them are
817designed for internal LLVM research and will not work outside of the LLVM
818research group. They may still be valuable, however, as a guide to writing your
819own TEST Makefile for any optimization or analysis passes that you develop with
820LLVM.</p>
821
Bill Wendling07370de2007-09-22 09:16:44 +0000822</div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000823
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000824<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
825<div class="doc_subsection">
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000826<a name="testsuiteoutput">Generating test output</a></div>
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000827<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
828<div class="doc_text">
829 <p>There are a number of ways to run the tests and generate output. The most
830 simple one is simply running <tt>gmake</tt> with no arguments. This will
831 compile and run all programs in the tree using a number of different methods
832 and compare results. Any failures are reported in the output, but are likely
833 drowned in the other output. Passes are not reported explicitely.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000834
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000835 <p>Somewhat better is running <tt>gmake TEST=sometest test</tt>, which runs
836 the specified test and usually adds per-program summaries to the output
837 (depending on which sometest you use). For example, the <tt>nightly</tt> test
838 explicitely outputs TEST-PASS or TEST-FAIL for every test after each program.
839 Though these lines are still drowned in the output, it's easy to grep the
840 output logs in the Output directories.</p>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000841
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000842 <p>Even better are the <tt>report</tt> and <tt>report.format</tt> targets
843 (where <tt>format</tt> is one of <tt>html</tt>, <tt>csv</tt>, <tt>text</tt> or
844 <tt>graphs</tt>). The exact contents of the report are dependent on which
845 <tt>TEST</tt> you are running, but the text results are always shown at the
846 end of the run and the results are always stored in the
847 <tt>report.&lt;type&gt;.format</tt> file (when running with
848 <tt>TEST=&lt;type&gt;</tt>).
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000849
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000850 The <tt>report</tt> also generate a file called
851 <tt>report.&lt;type&gt;.raw.out</tt> containing the output of the entire test
852 run.
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000853</div>
854
855<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
856<div class="doc_subsection">
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000857<a name="testsuitecustom">Writing custom tests for the test suite</a></div>
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000858<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
859
860<div class="doc_text">
861
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000862<p>Assuming you can run the test suite, (e.g. "<tt>gmake TEST=nightly report</tt>"
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000863should work), it is really easy to run optimizations or code generator
864components against every program in the tree, collecting statistics or running
865custom checks for correctness. At base, this is how the nightly tester works,
866it's just one example of a general framework.</p>
867
868<p>Lets say that you have an LLVM optimization pass, and you want to see how
869many times it triggers. First thing you should do is add an LLVM
870<a href="ProgrammersManual.html#Statistic">statistic</a> to your pass, which
871will tally counts of things you care about.</p>
872
873<p>Following this, you can set up a test and a report that collects these and
874formats them for easy viewing. This consists of two files, an
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000875"<tt>test-suite/TEST.XXX.Makefile</tt>" fragment (where XXX is the name of your
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000876test) and an "<tt>llvm-test/TEST.XXX.report</tt>" file that indicates how to
877format the output into a table. There are many example reports of various
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000878levels of sophistication included with the test suite, and the framework is very
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000879general.</p>
880
881<p>If you are interested in testing an optimization pass, check out the
882"libcalls" test as an example. It can be run like this:<p>
883
884<div class="doc_code">
885<pre>
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000886% cd llvm/projects/test-suite/MultiSource/Benchmarks # or some other level
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000887% make TEST=libcalls report
888</pre>
889</div>
890
891<p>This will do a bunch of stuff, then eventually print a table like this:</p>
892
893<div class="doc_code">
894<pre>
895Name | total | #exit |
896...
897FreeBench/analyzer/analyzer | 51 | 6 |
898FreeBench/fourinarow/fourinarow | 1 | 1 |
899FreeBench/neural/neural | 19 | 9 |
900FreeBench/pifft/pifft | 5 | 3 |
901MallocBench/cfrac/cfrac | 1 | * |
902MallocBench/espresso/espresso | 52 | 12 |
903MallocBench/gs/gs | 4 | * |
904Prolangs-C/TimberWolfMC/timberwolfmc | 302 | * |
905Prolangs-C/agrep/agrep | 33 | 12 |
906Prolangs-C/allroots/allroots | * | * |
907Prolangs-C/assembler/assembler | 47 | * |
908Prolangs-C/bison/mybison | 74 | * |
909...
910</pre>
911</div>
912
913<p>This basically is grepping the -stats output and displaying it in a table.
914You can also use the "TEST=libcalls report.html" target to get the table in HTML
915form, similarly for report.csv and report.tex.</p>
916
Matthijs Kooijman977ffef2008-06-24 12:58:31 +0000917<p>The source for this is in test-suite/TEST.libcalls.*. The format is pretty
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000918simple: the Makefile indicates how to run the test (in this case,
919"<tt>opt -simplify-libcalls -stats</tt>"), and the report contains one line for
920each column of the output. The first value is the header for the column and the
921second is the regex to grep the output of the command for. There are lots of
922example reports that can do fancy stuff.</p>
923
924</div>
925
926
927<!--=========================================================================-->
928<div class="doc_section"><a name="nightly">Running the nightly tester</a></div>
929<!--=========================================================================-->
930
931<div class="doc_text">
932
933<p>
934The <a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">LLVM Nightly Testers</a>
935automatically check out an LLVM tree, build it, run the "nightly"
Matthijs Kooijman98604862008-05-23 11:45:18 +0000936program test (described above), run all of the DejaGNU tests,
Dan Gohmanf17a25c2007-07-18 16:29:46 +0000937delete the checked out tree, and then submit the results to
938<a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">http://llvm.org/nightlytest/</a>.
939After test results are submitted to
940<a href="http://llvm.org/nightlytest/">http://llvm.org/nightlytest/</a>,
941they are processed and displayed on the tests page. An email to
942<a href="http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-testresults/">
943llvm-testresults@cs.uiuc.edu</a> summarizing the results is also generated.
944This testing scheme is designed to ensure that programs don't break as well
945as keep track of LLVM's progress over time.</p>
946
947<p>If you'd like to set up an instance of the nightly tester to run on your
948machine, take a look at the comments at the top of the
949<tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt> file. If you decide to set up a nightly tester
950please choose a unique nickname and invoke <tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt>
951with the "-nickname [yournickname]" command line option.
952
953<p>You can create a shell script to encapsulate the running of the script.
954The optimized x86 Linux nightly test is run from just such a script:</p>
955
956<div class="doc_code">
957<pre>
958#!/bin/bash
959BASE=/proj/work/llvm/nightlytest
960export BUILDDIR=$BASE/build
961export WEBDIR=$BASE/testresults
962export LLVMGCCDIR=/proj/work/llvm/cfrontend/install
963export PATH=/proj/install/bin:$LLVMGCCDIR/bin:$PATH
964export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/proj/install/lib
965cd $BASE
966cp /proj/work/llvm/llvm/utils/NewNightlyTest.pl .
967nice ./NewNightlyTest.pl -nice -release -verbose -parallel -enable-linscan \
968 -nickname NightlyTester -noexternals &gt; output.log 2&gt;&amp;1
969</pre>
970</div>
971
972<p>It is also possible to specify the the location your nightly test results
973are submitted. You can do this by passing the command line option
974"-submit-server [server_address]" and "-submit-script [script_on_server]" to
975<tt>utils/NewNightlyTest.pl</tt>. For example, to submit to the llvm.org
976nightly test results page, you would invoke the nightly test script with
977"-submit-server llvm.org -submit-script /nightlytest/NightlyTestAccept.cgi".
978If these options are not specified, the nightly test script sends the results
979to the llvm.org nightly test results page.</p>
980
981<p>Take a look at the <tt>NewNightlyTest.pl</tt> file to see what all of the
982flags and strings do. If you start running the nightly tests, please let us
983know. Thanks!</p>
984
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