[lldb-dev] Deleting lldb/utils/test/

[Jonas Devlieghere via lldb-dev]

Last time I looked at these nothing seemed relevant (anymore) to me either.
I'm in favor of getting rid of the directory.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:26 AM Vedant Kumar via lldb-dev <
lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm considering deleting the lldb/utils/test/ directory as a cleanup. Does
> anyone has a reason to keep these scripts around?
>
> Here are the files in the directory:
>
> % ls lldb/utils/test
> README-disasm                   README-run-until-faulted
> lldb-disasm.py                  main.c                          run-dis.py
> README-lldb-disasm              disasm.py
>  llvm-mc-shell.py                ras.py
> run-until-faulted.py
>
> AFAICT:
>
> - disasm.py would've been helpful before lldb gained a 'disassemble'
> command, but it doesn't seem useful anymore
> - ditto for lldb-disasm.py; this one also seems quite Darwin-specific (I'm
> pretty sure it doesn't work anymore)
> - llvm-mc-shell.py might be useful if you want to type bytes by hand and
> see the disassembly, but even then, seems better to just do `echo "<bytes>"
> | llvm-mc`
> - ras.py isn't running the test suite properly, also (imo) seems like an
> ersatz Jenkins replacement
> - main.c is just an example program
> - run-dis.py looks like a driver for stress-testing lldb's disassembly
> command, but it looks very iOS/Darwin specific and has likely outlived its
> usefulness
> - run-until-faulted.py runs a program up to 100 times to see if any of the
> runs fail; I suspect most users would reach for a shell one-liner before
> looking for something like this script
>
> Thoughts?
>
> thanks,
> vedant
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