[LLVMdev] More on backend testing

[Vladimir Prus]

John Criswell wrote:

> The reference output for the LLVM test suite is generated by compiling
> the test program with the native GCC compiler and running it.  The test
> suite then compiles the program using the LLVM compilers, runs the
> program, and compares the LLVM program's output to the native program's
> output.
>
> In short, we assume that native GCC compiles the program correctly and
> then compare LLVM against it.

Thanks, John! This approach is very nice.

- Volodya