[PATCH] New SystemZ backend: LLVM code changes

[Richard Sandiford]

Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> writes:
>> Hmm, I was just trying to mimic the AArch64 tests, like Eric said. :-)
>> Do you mean that there's something wrong with the way those work,
>> or with the way I adapted them?
>
> In general, we like to test systems in isolation. I am sorry I never
> got time to look at AArch64, but any architecture that has at least a
> basic asm parser should test codegen and MC individually.
>
> Tests using -flietype=obj should only exist to test problems specific
> to direct code emission, which, given the MCStreamer design, shouldn't
> be very many.
>
> Historically we had many of them because some targets got the ability
> to output objects directly before they got the ability to parse ASM,
> but that is an historical issue, not a design goal.

Ah, OK, thanks for the explanation.  How does this version look?

Richard

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