[GHC] #5233: Support specifying the assembly that should be generated

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#5233: Support specifying the assembly that should be generated
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    Reporter:  tibbe             |       Owner:  simonmar        
        Type:  feature request   |      Status:  patch           
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  7.6.1           
   Component:  Test Suite        |     Version:  7.0.3           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
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Changes (by nicolast):

 * cc: ikke+ghc@… (added)


Comment:

 This looks somewhat like LLVM's "FileCheck" system [1]. Might be useful?

 Next to that: maybe removing all register names from the asm to be
 generated could be replaced by using placeholders (like "Variables" in
 FileCheck).

 [1] http://llvm.org/docs/TestingGuide.html#FileCheck

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