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Re: Understand GCC test process
- From: Sabrina Souto <sabrinadfs at gmail dot com>
- To: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:45:31 -0300
- Subject: Re: Understand GCC test process
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> What exactly are you tracing, and how?
I'm proposing an approach for testing configurable system in my
research, and I'm trying to apply it to GCC. So, I instrumented the
GCC function calls (in the first level of ..gcc-version-x.x/gcc/ and
the dirs related to C/C++) and some options, in a semi-automatic way
(I tried to use PIN, but it was very slow...).
> Are you only tracing the 'gcc' driver? Or every process and child
> process that gets spawned by 'make'?
I'm tracing the 'gcc' driver.
>
> Typically to run the testsuite you run 'make', which runs DejaGnu's
> 'runtest' shell script, which runs the 'expect' program (written in
> Tcl), which invokes the 'gcc' driver, which invokes the actual
> compiler, 'cc1', to compile a testcase. So a lot of that is common to
> every testcase.
Do you mean, for example, that the compiler will always build the AST,
translate to intermediary code representations, etc., regardless of
the compilation option... and it corresponds to a lot of common code
across all tests?
Thanks,
Sabrina Souto