[LLVMdev] RFC: Dropping DejaGNU

[Jim Grosbach]

On Oct 19, 2009, at 3:58 PM, Eric Christopher wrote:

>>
>> Should be possible, although I don't know anything about the dejagnu
>> feature. However, 'lit' has a reasonably complete shell and Tcl  
>> parser
>> so it knows what commands are being called, so at least in theory it
>> should be able to rewrite them.
>
> Interesting. Even less of that would be just duplicating the
> functionality. At any rate everything looks quite nice.
>

Why not abstracting the "copy to target," "run on target," "get  
results from target," etc. commands? For the default (hosted) case,  
they're pretty much trivial. For remote targets, they can be defined  
in terms of RSH, SSH, or whatever. As I recall, dejagnu does something  
along those lines.


> Thanks!
>
> -eric
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