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-This file contains a list of notes for those writing testcases and those
-writing expect scripts. At present, they're in random order.
-
-Verbosity Levels
-
-- each level adds verbosity so level 2 prints all level 1 and level 2 stuff.
-
-1) Print a one-liner indicating the testcase being run (and maybe special
- compiler options).
-
-2) Print compiler and program invocation including arguments and their output.
- Proc's gcc_load and gcc_start handle the latter two.
-
-3) Print detailed testcase analysis like "Looking for pattern ...", etc.
-
-4) Maximum verbosity. Print anything else of interest.
-
-send_log conventions
-
-Various messages are stored in gcc.log by the testing framework and we
-try to augment them with some of our own. The format of the framework
-messages are:
-
-PASS: blah blah ...
-FAIL: blah blah ...
-
-so we use
-
-XXXX: blah blah ...
-
-Current messages are:
-
-EXEC: program being executed (so compiler path and args are recorded)
-STAT: intermediate pass/fail statistics
-
-Test scripts must ignore the compiler messages "path prefix never used"
-and "linker input file unused". Don't let their appearance cause a testcase
-to fail. See lib/dg.exp for the exact regsub to use.
-
-If you're unclear about which directory a testcase should be installed in,
-ask gcc-local.
-
-Have the text of a fail message be the same as that for pass.
-IE: have
-
- if ...success...
- pass "pr 1234"
- else
- fail "pr 1234"
-
-not
-
- if ...success...
- pass "pr 1234 passed"
- else
- fail "pr 1234 failed"
-
-
-This lets test-tool (which drives the nightly tests) do a better job
-at tracking which tests have digressed or been fixed.
-
-DO NOT PUT NON-PORTABLE TESTCASES IN gcc.c-torture.
-
-ANY TARGET SPECIFIC TESTCASE MUST HAVE APPROPRIATE CODE TO PREVENT IT FROM
-CAUSING A `FAILURE' ON UNSUPPORTED PLATFORMS.
-
-The "torture" tests are meant to be generic tests that can run on any
-target. So you have to be careful about endianness, assumptions about
-sizes of datatypes, etc etc.
-
-For tests that merely need to compile, put them in the "compile" directory.
-
-For tests which should give an error, put them in the "noncompile" directory
-and update noncompile.exp appropriately (see examples in noncompile.exp).
-
-For IEEE FP specific tests, put them in execute/ieee.
-
-For execution tests, put them in execute.
-
-Always use abort() for runtime failures, and exit(0) for success.
-The testing harness is set up to watch for these and do something appropriate
-(when necessary) for target boards.
-
-If a test does not fit into the torture framework, use the dg framework.
-
-
-