On 8/26/14, 6:40 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote:

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Justin Bogner <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Eric Fiselier <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> writes:
     >> I don't think we should spend our time fixing warnings (coverity or
     >> otherwise) is code that is supposed to produce compile
     >> errors... seems a waste.
     >
     > I don't want to revive this thread, but I really want to address this.
     >
     > Its *more* important to fix problems in tests that are supposed to
     > fail to compile than any other test.  Its super easy to have code fail
     > to compile.  What we are trying to test is that it fails for the
     > *right* reason.  Any other errors, such as the one in this patch,
     > could cause the test to "pass" incorrectly.  What if this test was
     > "passing" because of the missing return?

    I suspect the right answer here is to rework the libc++ testing
    infrastructure so that it actually checks *why* the test failed in some
    way, rather than the current "Exit code 1? Great!" approach.

    I guess this is tricky if we want to be able to test libc++ with
    different compilers or avoid version locking it too tightly with clang,
    though.


I would really like to see more detailed testing. Maybe we could have optional
checks on the text of the output with FileCheck (or clang's -verify) when using
clang, and otherwise fall back on exit status?

A first-order approximation, I suppose, would be to arrange for filecheck to check that clang/gcc/whatever spits out an error message containing the word "error" and the particular offending line number. I think this should be relatively compiler agnostic.


Jon


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