[LLVMdev] Error messages in llvm-test

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 11:33 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> llvm-test fails on me in the first test (and many subsequent tests,  
> but
> I hope that fixing the first test will allow me to continue).
>
> I see syntax errors from the C compiler and core dumps from llc.
> Is any of this supposed to happen?
>
> This is still on my amd64 machine. However, the build process is using
> the right incantation to compile (gcc-4.2 -m32 -Wl,-melf_i386).
> The llvm-gcc toolchain installed is the precompiled 2.2 Red Hat  
> package
> for Linux.
>
> See below for the error messages, and further below for the source  
> lines
> mentioned in the messages.
>
> Should I worry about these messages? I haven't tested actually using
> LLVM yet, and I may be barking up the wrong tree. (Having a clean test
> suite *would* make me feel more confident, of course.)

This looks like you are using a newer llvm-test than your llvm-gcc/ 
llvm tree are.  In particular, CBE support for vector stuff is very  
new, and wasn't in 2.2.  Please make sure that your llvm-test tree  
matches your llvm-gcc and llvm trees.

-Chris