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

[Joel E. Denny via llvm-dev]

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 1:23 PM, Jessica Paquette <jpaquette at apple.com>
wrote:

> Right now, the tests try to accomplish the following
>
> 1. Define a sequence of instructions (e.g a,b,c)
> 2. Insert that sequence into k places with an unique instruction between
> them to make sure the outliner will yank them out *without overlaps*
> 3. Check for k calls to an outlined function
> 4. Check that the outlined sequence still exists in the program
>
> This can result in some pretty long tests which would be a lot easier to
> define if we could say something like “this function must contain k
> instances of an outlined call, and not contain this sequence of
> instructions”.
>
> test/CodeGen/machine-outliner.mir is a pretty good example of a test that
> would benefit from this sort of thing.
>

I'm not sure if what I'm proposing will do what you need.  CHECK-DAG is for
cases where a set of expected strings is unordered.  I'm trying to extend
it to handle cases where those strings aren't unique either.  In your
example, I see the non-unique property but not the unordered property.  Did
I miss it?

Moreover, it seems your example could be handled now by two FileCheck calls
with different prefixes, say OUT and INS.  The first would use a sequence
of k "OUT:" directives to ensure that there are k outlined calls.  The
second would use "INS-NOT:" directives to ensure other instructions don't
occur.  The calls could also have a common prefix, say CHECK, to use for
the function labels.  Does that do what you want?

Thanks

Joel



>
> - Jessica
>
> On May 4, 2018, at 10:05 AM, Joel E. Denny <jdenny.ornl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jessica,
>
> This time I'm replying all....
>
> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Jessica Paquette <jpaquette at apple.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I would personally like a feature like that in FileCheck because it would
>> make it a lot easier to write MachineOutliner tests, and would make the
>> tests significantly smaller and easier to understand.
>>
>
> How do MachineOutliner tests accomplish this now?  Can you point me to an
> example?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joel
>
>
>>
>> - Jessica
>>
>> > On May 4, 2018, at 8:40 AM, Joel E. Denny via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Using FileCheck, I have not found a way to make a group of CHECK-DAG
>> directives match multiple occurrences of a string.  For example, I naively
>> thought the following would match successfully:
>> >
>> > ```
>> > $ cat checks.txt
>> > // CHECK: start
>> > // CHECK-DAG: foo
>> > // CHECK-DAG: foo
>> > // CHECK-DAG: bar
>> > // CHECK-NEXT: end
>> >
>> > $ cat input.txt
>> > start
>> > foo
>> > bar
>> > foo
>> > end
>> >
>> > $ FileCheck --input-file=input.txt checks.txt
>> > checks.txt:5:16: error: CHECK-NEXT: is not on the line after the
>> previous match
>> > // CHECK-NEXT: end
>> >                ^
>> > input.txt:5:1: note: 'next' match was here
>> > end
>> > ^
>> > input.txt:3:4: note: previous match ended here
>> > bar
>> >    ^
>> > input.txt:4:1: note: non-matching line after previous match is here
>> > foo
>> > ^
>> > ```
>> >
>> > The trouble is that both "CHECK-DAG: foo" directives match the first
>> "foo".
>> >
>> > I'd like this ability for testing a parallel program that outputs a
>> series of non-unique strings in non-deterministic order.  Am I trying to
>> push FileCheck beyond its intended domain?  Is there some existing feature
>> for this purpose that I've overlooked?  If not, I see two potential
>> solutions:
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > An advantage of #1 that the intuitive way (at least in my mind) of
>> expressing multiple occurrences of a string, as in the example above, would
>> work.  An advantage of #2 is that existing CHECK-DAG functionality would
>> not change, and so there should be no chance of impacting existing well
>> formed tests.
>> >
>> > To understand the issue better, I've prototyped #2.  It still needs
>> test cases and documentation, so it's not ready for a formal patch review.
>> If people like the idea, I'll polish it up.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Joel
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