[llvm-dev] RFC: FileCheck Enhancements

Michael Kruse via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jun 3 11:03:13 PDT 2016


2016-05-26 18:13 GMT+02:00 James Y Knight via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
> For "6. Check statement for words only" -- I think it might be better to
> just make that be the ONLY behavior, rather than an additional option -- if
> you intended to end a match in the middle of  a word, stick {{[^ ]*}} on it.

I support this. I found it very confusing when
; CHECK-NEXT: br
to check for a branch instruction also matched a line eg.
%2 = add i32 %subregion, i32 5

However, it is a breaking change and therefore might require changes
in existing tests.

Michael


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