[llvm-dev] RFC: [FileCheck] CHECK-DAG for multiple occurrences of string

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Mon May 7 09:56:05 PDT 2018


> 1. In a CHECK-DAG group, don't let the matches for patterns overlap.
> 2. Add a new CHECK-DAG-N directive, where N is some integer, to express
> that a pattern must have N non-overlapping matches.

I think #1 is much more intuitive and easy to describe/document than #2.
Changing the meaning of DAG in that way is highly unlikely to affect any 
existing test, IMO.  And if it does, my first expectation is that the test 
wasn't doing what the author intended anyway.
--paulr



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