[LLVMdev] make check-lit + grep escape characters

Eric Christopher echristo at apple.com
Thu May 24 00:31:05 PDT 2012


On May 24, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Stepan Dyatkovskiy wrote:

> Hi all. I found that if you want to use grep with escape characters in 
> lit, you should pass it within the double slash (\\). Since the first 
> one is captured by python scripts and the second one by grep.
> E.g. if you want to capture "grep icmp ule" you should pass
> "grep icmp\\ ule"
> 
> So I'm going to commit the test with strings like this. How stable this 
> feature in lit?

Why are you using grep and not FileCheck?

-eric



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