[LLVMdev] RFC: Improving our DWARF (and ELF) emission testing capabilities

[Eric Christopher]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:

> >> > I'm fine with this as long as llvm-dwarfdump gets maintained.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I agree, and as I said in the original email, in the long term I
> >> believe llvm-dwarfdump is the correct solution.
> >>
> >
> > The problem is that if no one is working on testing these sorts of things
> > with llvm-dwarfdump then it won't be maintained for this purpose.
>
> > See
> > elf-dump and people not expanding/fixing bugs in llvm-objdump and using
> that
> > for tests.
> >
>
> Can you clarify/elaborate on this last sentence?
>

Sure. People are updating, modifying and adding new tests that use elf-dump
and not updating, modifying or fixing llvm-objdump to test the same thing.

-eric
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