r200233 - Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4 should not enable hwdiv-arm

Artyom Skrobov Artyom.Skrobov at arm.com
Tue Jan 28 10:03:13 PST 2014


Hello Reid,

> A couple things wrong here:
> 1. This test fails if ARM is not a registered target (add "// REQUIRES:
> arm-registered-target" to fix)
> 2. Clang tests shouldn't test generated assembly, that's what LLVM tests
> are for
> 3. Driver tests shouldn't do IR generation, which this test does

This test is neither for the generated assembly per se, nor for the IR; it's for the target features, which are set in the front-end, and only affect the ARM build attributes that are emitted.
The IR output doesn't include the build attributes, so it is completely unaffected.

> I'm reverting this in r200242 for now, but feel free to recommit a test
> in test/CodeGen that verifies you get the right attribute bits in the
> IR, if that's how this gets passed down to LLVM.

No, this doesn't affect the attribute bits in the IR; I can see that the list of target features is passed to clang::EmitBackendOutput, which uses it to create an llvm::TargetMachine, which is then used to generate the output.
Therefore, the only way to test this change is via the generated machine code.

It might be possible to hack the IR printer so that for ARM targets it included a comment with a dump of the target features or the build attributes; but given that it's only needed for this test, I'd argue this would be even more sloppy than checking for the build attribute in the generated assembly.

Do you agree?







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