Register Allocator Tests

[Thomas Jakway]

Ah okay, thanks!

On Oct 11, 2016 8:25 PM, "Ömer Sinan Ağacan" <omeragacan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Is it not possible to unit test GHC?
>
> You need to export functions you want to test, and then write a program
> that
> tests those functions using the `ghc` package.
>
> See
> https://github.com/ghc/ghc/blob/master/testsuite/tests/
> unboxedsums/unboxedsums_unit_tests.hs
> for an example.
>
> 2016-10-11 17:50 GMT-04:00 Thomas Jakway <tjakway at nyu.edu>:
>
>> I read somewhere that fixing the graph register allocator would be a good
>> project so I thought I'd look into it. I couldn't find any tickets about it
>> on Trac though so I was poking around for tests to see what (if anything)
>> was wrong with it.
>>
>> After I sent that last email I googled around for how to write ghc unit
>> tests and this
>> <https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2014-January/003916.html>
>> is the only thing I found.  Is it not possible to unit test GHC?  If not
>> are there plans/discussions about this?  I think it'd help document the
>> code base if nothing else and it'd be a good way to get my feet wet.
>> On 10/11/2016 02:13 PM, Ben Gamari wrote:
>>
>> Thomas Jakway <tjakway at nyu.edu> <tjakway at nyu.edu> writes:
>>
>>
>> Can anyone point me to the register allocator tests (especially for the
>> graph register allocator)?  Can't seem to find them and grepping doesn't
>> turn up much (pretty much just
>> testsuite/tests/codeGen/should_run/cgrun028.h).
>>
>>
>> What sort of tests are you looking for in particular? I'm afraid all we
>> have are regression tests covering the code generator as a whole.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>>
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