[llvm] r189546 - [lit] Add a TODO.
Daniel Dunbar
daniel at zuster.org
Wed Aug 28 17:41:15 PDT 2013
Author: ddunbar
Date: Wed Aug 28 19:41:15 2013
New Revision: 189546
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=189546&view=rev
Log:
[lit] Add a TODO.
Modified:
llvm/trunk/utils/lit/TODO
Modified: llvm/trunk/utils/lit/TODO
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/utils/lit/TODO?rev=189546&r1=189545&r2=189546&view=diff
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--- llvm/trunk/utils/lit/TODO (original)
+++ llvm/trunk/utils/lit/TODO Wed Aug 28 19:41:15 2013
@@ -121,6 +121,35 @@ Infrastructure
tests, or add additional features to the internal shell handling to allow
them to pass.
+5. Consider changing core to support setup vs. execute distinction.
+
+ Many of the existing test formats are cleanly divided into two phases, once
+ parses the test format and extracts XFAIL and REQUIRES information, etc., and
+ the other code actually executes the test.
+
+ We could make this distinction part of the core infrastructure and that would
+ enable a couple things:
+
+ * The REQUIREs handling could be lifted to the core, which is nice.
+
+ * This would provide a clear place to insert subtest support, because the
+ setup phase could be responsible for providing subtests back to the
+ core. That would provide part of the infrastructure to parallelize them, for
+ example, and would probably interact well with other possible features like
+ parameterized tests.
+
+ * This affords a clean implementation of --no-execute.
+
+ * One possible downside could be for test formats that cannot determine their
+ subtests without having executed the test. Supporting such formats would
+ either force the test to actually be executed in the setup stage (which
+ might be ok, as long as the API was explicitly phrased to support that), or
+ would mean we are forced into supporting subtests as return values from the
+ execute phase.
+
+ Any format can just keep all of its code in execute, presumably, so the only
+ cost of implementing this is its impact on the API and futures changes.
+
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