r208868 - AArch64: update test after LLVM CodeGen change

Eric Christopher echristo at gmail.com
Thu May 15 11:43:55 PDT 2014


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Any chance of fixing this test to split the frontend and backend
>> appropriately - so the backend is tested in LLVM and the frontend in
>> Clang? (ie: test IR output in Clang, and LLVM->asm in LLVM)
>
> It's been on my list of annoyances for quite a while. In many cases
> they don't even pretend to check argument structure, just that some
> vaguely sane instruction is emitted.
>
> But it's probably not going to happen until at least the merge is
> done. Even then the actual frequency of breakage isn't very high and
> the work in rewriting them properly *is*, so it might take a while
> until I get around to it.
>

It would be appreciated. It's pretty bad to have tests on producing .s
files in the front end.

Thanks!

-eric



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