[LLVMdev] AVX Testcases

[Dan Gohman]

On Jan 5, 2010, at 11:53 AM, David Greene wrote:

> On Tuesday 05 January 2010 13:20, Dan Gohman wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2010, at 9:54 AM, David Greene wrote:
>>> I should be sending up some AVX code this week.  When I do this
>>> I'd like to generate some testcases to make sure we actually
>>> generate AVX code.  Ideally we'd have a testcase for each AVX
>>> pattern but that's probably overkill.  Still, we'd like a lot
>>> of tests, I think.
>>> 
>>> Should these tests go into CodeGen/X86 or should I create a new space,
>>> like CodeGen/X86/SIMD?  I tend to favor the latter as it keeps things
>>> more compartmentalized and cleaner.
>> 
>> Adding a subdirectory here sounds good. "SIMD" might be a bit too general
>> though; how about test/CodeGen/X86/AVX?
> 
> This will be a rewrite of all the x86 SIMD stuff so the name seemed
> appropriate.  It'll be testing the whole infrastructure, not just AVX.

Ok, SIMD sounds fine. 

Dan