labath added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D39215#904536, @labath wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D39215#904510, @zturner wrote:
>
> > There is already a CMake variable called `LLDB_TEST_COMPILER`.  This 
> > `LLDB_TEST_CLANG` was introduced later, I guess unaware of the presence of 
> > `LLDB_TEST_COMPILER`.  Would it be possible to standardize on one variable? 
> >  This would also mean deleting the `TEST_C_COMPILER` and TEST_CXX_COMPILER` 
> > variables.  I don't see why we should ever have both.  Run the test suite a 
> > second time if you need to test with different C and C++ compilers.
>
>
> Unlike msvc, where you just use CL to compile everything, on ***nix you have 
> different compiler drivers for C (gcc, clang) and C++ (g++, clang++). The 
> differences are minute, but we still need both (clang has --driver-mode=g++ 
> argument to emulate g++, but I don't know of any gcc option like that).
>
> However, I do see a bit of space for simplification. I can remove 
> LLDB_TEST_CLANG altogether, and just have LLDB_TEST_???_COMPILER default to 
> clang.


Scratch that, dotest.py already has some magic to compute the c++ compiler, 
given the c version, so I guess one variable is really enough.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D39215



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