[LLVMdev] How to write a regression test case?

Triple Yang triple.yang at gmail.com
Mon Aug 27 23:28:45 PDT 2012


2012/8/28 Changcheng Wang <changcheng at multicorewareinc.com>:
> hi,yang:
> another question,i write a test like this:
> /*****test start******/
> ; RUN: llc -march=c < %s | FileCheck %s
>
> ; ModuleID = 'hello.c'
> target datalayout = "e-p:64:64:64-i1:8:8-i8:8:8-i16:16:16-i32:32:32-i64:64:64-
> f32:32:32-f64:64:64-v64:64:64-v128:128:128-a0:0:64-s0:64:64-f80:128:128-
> n8:16:32:64-S128"
> target triple = "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
>
> @.str = private unnamed_addr constant [12 x i8] c"helloworld\0A\00", align 1
>
> define i32 @main() nounwind uwtable {
> entry:
>   %retval = alloca i32, align 4
>   store i32 0, i32* %retval
>   %call = call i32 (i8*, ...)* @printf(i8* getelementptr inbounds ([12 x i8]*
> @.str, i32 0, i32 0))
>   ret i32 0
> }
>
> declare i32 @printf(i8*, ...)
> ;
>
> ;CHECK: main
> ;CHECK: printf
> /******test end*******/
> i run the example ok,now i what to check if the file llc ouput contain
> a string "helloworld",so i add a sentence ";CHECK: {helloworld}" after
> ";CHECK: printf".but it failed.why?

Why do you check "{helloworld}" rather than "helloworld"?

If you are not sure a string pattern does exist in result file,
compile it manually and check the content before
adding a CHECK to test it.

>
> yours,
> changcheng
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You are welcome.
>>
>> /* example.c */
>> // RUN: clang %s -S -O0 -emit-llvm -o %t.ll
>> // RUN: llc %t.ll -O0 -march=x86 -o %t.s
>> // RUN: FileCheck < %t.s %s
>>
>>
>> // CHECK: fct
>> unsigned int fct(unsigned int n) {
>>         if(n>0) return fct(n-1)*n;
>>         else return 1;
>> }
>> /* end example.c */
>>
>>
>> /* lit.local.cfg */
>> config.suffixes = ['.c', '.cpp', '.ll']
>>
>> targets = set(config.root.targets_to_build.split())
>> if not 'VPU' in targets:
>>     config.unsupported = True
>> /* end lit.local.cfg */
>>
>>
>> 2012/8/28 Changcheng Wang <changcheng at multicorewareinc.com>:
>>> hi,yang:
>>> thanks for your help!
>>> my net is so poor that i can not donwload your attachment.
>>> would you like to paste here,or send to my other email:200005275 at 163.com?
>>>
>>> yours
>>>
>>> changcheng
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Wang,
>>>>
>>>> Attachment is a simple example, you may put it in test/CodeGen, and run with
>>>>
>>>> llvm-lit C90
>>>>
>>>> It worked ok in my llvm 3.2 devel. Let know if you run into any trouble.
>>>>
>>>> Regards.
>>>>
>>>> 2012/8/27 Changcheng Wang <changcheng at multicorewareinc.com>:
>>>>> hi,Yang:
>>>>> if you can give me a examle,which check out a string(such as "abcd")
>>>>> from a file(such as aaa.c) with fileCheck?
>>>>> i tried to write it but failed.
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for your help!
>>>>>
>>>>> best wished!
>>>>>
>>>>> changcheng
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I guess so.
>>>>>> FileCheck has powerful extensions than just matching some strings so that
>>>>>> it can support complex situations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2012/8/22 Changcheng Wang <changcheng at multicorewareinc.com>:
>>>>>>> yeah,i see.
>>>>>>> i thought FileCheck check if the same string in the two file,is it?
>>>>>>> the file t.s maybe do not have the same string with %s,so FileCheck
>>>>>>> perhaps give a fail.
>>>>>>> i am not sure about it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 2012/8/22 Changcheng Wang <changcheng at multicorewareinc.com>:
>>>>>>>>> the example is more like what i need,it is so nice.
>>>>>>>>> but,i am indefinite if "RUN: FileCheck < %t.s  %s" can pass,i
>>>>>>>>> understand that t.s was translate from t.ll,%s means read the local
>>>>>>>>> source,are they the same?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> %t indicates a temporary file for output. ".s" is just a suffix I used
>>>>>>>> conventionly.
>>>>>>>> You can replace it with any string you like.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> See entry "tmp" in http://llvm.org/docs/TestingGuide.html#rtvars
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> I did an experiment just now with a test case like:
>>>>>>>>>> // RUN: clang %s -S -emit-llvm -o %t.ll
>>>>>>>>>> // RUN: llc %t.ll  -o %t.s
>>>>>>>>>> // RUN: FileCheck < %t.s  %s
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> // CHECK: ...
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And it worked.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It seems clang does not take stdin as its input, so "clang < %s" fails.
>>>>>>>>>> Meanwhile, both "llc < %t.ll" and "llc %t.ll" work.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> 2012/8/22 Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>>>>> 2012/8/21 Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 2012/8/21 Changcheng Wang <changcheng at multicorewareinc.com>:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi,Yang
>>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks for your entire answer,i will do it follow you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> still another question puzzled me:i write a hello.c file like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> //RUN: llc -march=c < %s | FileCheck %s
>>>>>>>>>>>>> #include"stdio.h"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> int main() {
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   printf ("Helloworld.\n");
>>>>>>>>>>>>>   return 0;
>>>>>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> in fact, i want to thanslate it to a hello.ll file like this:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;RUN: llc -march=c < %s | FileCheck %s
>>>>>>>>>>>>> .......
>>>>>>>>>>>>> ;CHECK.....
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> but,when i thanslate the hello.c with clang,the sentence "//RUN: llc
>>>>>>>>>>>>> -march=c < %s | FileCheck %s" was treated as comment.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> it samed the method translating hello.c to hello.ll is wrong,isnot it?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> To translate a .c file to a .ll file, you should wirte, for example,
>>>>>>>>>>>>       clang -emit-llvm -S test.c -o test.ll
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> And the corresponding command for regression test might be:
>>>>>>>>>>>>      ; RUN: clang < %s -emit-llvm -S | FileCheck %s
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> We can write:
>>>>>>>>>>> // RUN: clang < %s -emit-llvm -S
>>>>>>>>>>> in a .c file to test clang.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> And if we use  FileCheck, like:
>>>>>>>>>>> // RUN: clang < %s -emit-llvm -S | FileCheck %s
>>>>>>>>>>> make sure there is some "// CHECK:" in that file, or lit will report a failure.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> See utils/lit/lit/ExampleTests/Clang for more details.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> (PS. When you reply to this email, make sure you send a copy to
>>>>>>>>>>>> llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks very much!
>>>>>>>>>>>>> best wishes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> changcheng
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Triple Yang <triple.yang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi, changcheng,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> There are following steps to be taken to write a test case:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 1. create a directory in test, say "test/XXX"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2. create a file named lit.local.cfg, which is a configuration file.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The straightforward way is to copy an existed one,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     like "test/CodeGen/SPARC/lit.local.cfg". You might need make some
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> modification on it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 3. create a file, say "example.ll"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     (The name of file does not matter, but the suffix of the file name
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DOES matter. See config.suffixes = [ ... ] in lit.local.cfg)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     for more details.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     example.ll includes normal content of LLVM IR, and the ";RUN ..."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> directives at the beginning of the file.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 4. run all regression test cases with "make check", which includes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> above test case newly added.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     Or you might want to run just that case with "llvm-lit test/XXX"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> or "llvm-lit test/XXX/example.ll"
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     llvm-lit resides in BUILD tree, distinguished from source tree and
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> install tree. You can find it under
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     your-build-tree/Release+Asserts/bin/ or
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> your-build-tree/Debug+Asserts/bin/ or likewise, which depends on your
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> build
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>     configuration.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> By the way, in the following ";RUN ..." directive
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ; RUN: llc < %s  -march=x86 | FileCheck %s
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> %s indicates current file under test. I guess the first %s stands for
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> the input for llc, while the second and last %s specifies
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> what to check using "; CHECK ..." directives since you write them down
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> on exactly CURRENT file.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hope it work for you.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Regards.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2012/8/20 Changcheng Wang <changcheng at multicorewareinc.com>:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> hi,all:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> i really want to how to write a regression test case,but i do not find
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> out a entire document about it.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> By reading LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide and FileCheck - Flexible
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> pattern matching file verifier, i only have a idea,but it is not
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> enough for me to write a test case.i need more detail about how to
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> write a RUN:lines.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> thanks for you scan,wish your letter.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> best wishes,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> changcheng
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 杨勇勇 (Yang Yongyong)
>>>>>>>>>>>>
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