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

[Vedant Kumar via lldb-dev]

Sounds good, deleted as of 158f3360.

> On Oct 27, 2020, at 10:46 AM, Jonas Devlieghere <jonas at devlieghere.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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