[LLVMdev] Running generic tests for a foreign target

[David Blaikie]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:47 AM, Daniel Sanders <Daniel.Sanders at imgtec.com>
wrote:

>  Hi,
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> I'm wondering if there's a way to run our generic tests (e.g.
> test/CodeGen/Generic) for a foreign target architecture. For example, one
> of my recent commits r232374 passed 'ninja check-all' for me on my X86
> machine but failed a generic test on the Hexagon builders. Of course, it
> worked for me because I was actually testing the generic tests for X86
> instead of Hexagon.
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> Does anyone know of a way to easily catch this kind of problem before
> committing?
>

Nope, we don't really have anything for this - buildbot failures are
perfectly acceptable means of flushing these things out.

But it's an idea that's been bandied about more than once (running the test
suite with multiple target architectures) but not been implemented. It
would be nice to have.


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> *Daniel Sanders*
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> Leading Software Design Engineer, MIPS Processor IP
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> Imagination Technologies Limited
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> www.imgtec.com
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