[PATCH][AArch64] Add llvm-mc test for asm code generated from all LLVM IR tests

[Jim Grosbach]

It is a very, very strange way to write tests. llvm-mc is a tool to check the assembler and disassembler, not the compiler. What are you actually trying to do? I don’t understand the motivation. Perhaps an example?


On Nov 28, 2013, at 3:33 AM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jiangning,
> 
> I think this might be a layering violation (I've CCed Jim Grosbach,
> who's pretty much the authority). I know that object file tests are
> discouraged from CodeGen, and this seems very similar.
> 
> I think the preferred option would be to make sure any test you
> believe it's usefully doing is part of the test/MC hierarchy.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Tim.