v.g.vassilev added inline comments.

================
Comment at: clang/test/Interpreter/clangtests.cpp:1
+// RUN: clang-repl %S/../Lexer/badstring_in_if0.c -Xcc -E -Xcc -verify
+// RUN: clang-repl %S/../Lexer/unknown-char.c -Xcc -E -Xcc -verify
----------------
dblaikie wrote:
> v.g.vassilev wrote:
> > dblaikie wrote:
> > > dblaikie wrote:
> > > > v.g.vassilev wrote:
> > > > > @rsmith, would it be acceptable to have a test that refers other 
> > > > > tests from the repo in that manner?
> > > > Generally that's not done - and the inputs should be moved into an 
> > > > "Inputs" subdirectory and shared from there. Tests that are in 
> > > > different subdirectories - not sure if there's a good way to share 
> > > > those, maybe with an "Inputs" directory in a parent directory of both 
> > > > tests? We might not have precednt for that
> > > But more broadly, could you explain what the goal of these tests are? 
> > > Generally I would discourage what I think of as "shotgun" testing - 
> > > taking some existing comprehensive test for a particular feature and 
> > > using it to test a mostly orthogonal feature. The orthogonal feature 
> > > should have more targeted tests/it shouldn't be using such broad testing 
> > > in the regression suite here.
> > My take is that `clang-repl` is basically clang that takes inputs 
> > incrementally. Being that, means that we should be in a position to process 
> > whatever clang processes and thus we run against all of the existing tests. 
> > We planned to add the ones which we did not support as regression tests.
> > 
> > We can add more targeted tests but they would be copies or simplifications 
> > of already existing ones. Hence there is my hesitation - reuse or 
> > duplication...
> > 
> > My take is that clang-repl is basically clang that takes inputs 
> > incrementally. Being that, means that we should be in a position to process 
> > whatever clang processes and thus we run against all of the existing tests.
> 
> Yeah, that's sort of the "proof by absurdity" - we wouldn't want every clang 
> test running in both ahead of time and incremental mode in the usual 
> "check-clang" regression suite (I wouldn't mind having a separate mode for 
> testing - more of an integration test that some buildbots or those working on 
> more comprehensive clang-repl support could run, but most people/especially 
> fast bots would not). So then the question for me is which tests should we 
> have running all the time in "check-clang" - and my general answer is: 
> Situations that have motivated code changes/support in clang-repl: If no code 
> was added/changed/etc to clang-repl, then no test should be added to 
> "check-clang" for that test case.
> 
> If that "run everything under check-clang run under clang-repl to find 
> missing functionality" found some clang test that didn't work with 
> clang-repl, yeah, I'd generally be in favour of not reusing an input or 
> duplicating in its entirety - but reducing the test case to test only the 
> specific clang-repl functionality issue, and testing that in particular.
> 
> Like we shouldn't test every feature of static-assert with clang-repl and 
> clang in every "clang-check" if most of those features aren't distinctly 
> interesting in both cases. Just enough in clang-repl to test what makes 
> static-assert interesting in clang-repl.
@dblaikie, that makes sense to me.

@Purva-Chaudhari, can you address it by having just something like 
`// RUN: clang-repl  -Xcc -E` to exercise the -E and likewise for the `EmitBC` 
case?


CHANGES SINCE LAST ACTION
  https://reviews.llvm.org/D125946/new/

https://reviews.llvm.org/D125946

_______________________________________________
cfe-commits mailing list
cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org
https://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
  • [PATCH] D125946: Handles f... Vassil Vassilev via Phabricator via cfe-commits

Reply via email to