[cfe-dev] Proposal for an ABI testsuite for clang

[Eric Christopher]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Srivastava, Sunil
<sunil_srivastava at playstation.sony.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At the SN Systems division of Sony, we have developed an IA64 ABI test-suite

This word IA64 - I do not think it means what you think it means :)

> for clang/llvm based on the lit framework.  We would like to submit this to
> the LLVM community. The test-suite currently supports clang in both
> LP64/x86-64 and ILP32/x86 targets, with the ability of adding others. The
> tests perform target-side execution and work with both cross and native
> targets.
>

Sounds pretty cool. Do you have the code anywhere? Does where does it
fit in? What do the integration patches look like to have it run by
default?

-eric

> Please find attached a pdf document that describes the design of this
> test-suite.  In summary, the test-suite covers:
> ·         struct layout rules, including bit-fields,
> ·         Object layout, base classes, vtables, VTTs, construction vtables,
> ·         Name mangling,
> ·         Contents of typeinfo variables,
> ·         Array cookies,
> ·         and a few other items.
>
> Please consider accepting this test-suite as an llvm project. We look
> forward to addressing any comments and questions you have on this topic.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> Sunil Srivastava
>
> SN Systems / Sony Computer Entertainment
>
>
>
>
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