[LLVMdev] Proposal for GSoC project for improving llvm-test testsuite

[Holger Schurig]

> "Didn't work" means... what? Compilation failed? Program
> doesn't work? Either way: what mesages do you get?

Hey, this was two weeks ago.

Compilation was fine, I get a binary. The game engine also emits 
various log statemtens when it starts, but then stopped somehow. 
Sorry for being so scarce on details, but I did this at home and 
am now at work. At about 20:30 hours german time my kids are in 
bed and I can give more details, even the exact llvm svn 
revision that I used for my test.


> Are there any differences when compiling with the standard 4.2
> gcc? (Some distributions install gcc 4.0, you have to
> explicitly install gcc-4.2 to get the equivalent GNU
> compiler.)

I'm on debian unstable, so I have lot's of different GCCs to try 
against. Normally I compile with the debian brand of gcc-4.2 and 
there it works. It's an actively maintained project, it works 
even with gcc-4.3 (this is from hearsay, not my own 
experiments).

> Darkplaces is probably not a good test for the LLVM test
> suite.

I tried darkplaces because a) it's a complicated program, b) I 
play it once in a while with the nexuiz data and c) it has a 
benchmark mode, called "time demo".

However, I too think that darkplaces in it's current for isn't 
for the automatic test suite because of the 3D hardware 
requirements.

> Any failure may be due to problems with the 3D hardware 
> or the drivers,

Maybe, but the game works correctly with several gcc compilers.