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[COFF] added test for thinlto
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Authored by inglorion on Feb 22 2017, 2:54 PM.

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Creates bitcode files suitable for use with ThinLTO, then checks that the linker can build an executable from them.

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inglorion created this revision.Feb 22 2017, 2:54 PM

Maybe the testing is obvious to someone use to COFF, in which case I'm just out-of-place :)
Otherwise I'd rather have comment explaining what every check is doing.

test/COFF/thinlto.ll
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is .obj the standard extension for object on Windows? (and .lib for archive?)

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I don't know what is the /include directive doing? Is it preventing dead-stripping somehow? Or affecting the symbol resolution otherwise?

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I don't know enough about COFF to know if what you're testing is relevant here. Especially I have no idea why you're checking the HEADERS (or what you're checking).

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Why do we check this exact sequence of assembly? Overall I don't know what this test is enforcing / verifying right now.

pcc edited edge metadata.Feb 22 2017, 3:16 PM

For this test I wouldn't expect to see anything more than a basic test that uses temporaries to verify that importing is working. See http://llvm-cs.pcc.me.uk/tools/lld/test/ELF/lto/thinlto.ll for example.

pcc added a comment.Feb 22 2017, 3:21 PM

See also r295901 which changes the ELF test to be closer to what I'd expect this test to be doing.

inglorion updated this revision to Diff 89440.Feb 22 2017, 4:15 PM
inglorion edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)

@pcc: How is this instead?

inglorion added inline comments.Feb 22 2017, 4:19 PM
test/COFF/thinlto.ll
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Yes.

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Right. It instructs the linker to retain that symbol, regardless of what it would otherwise do.

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This was essentially performing the same checks as lto.ll. However, per @pcc's suggestion, I've changed the test to be much simpler and not actually look at the disassembly.

pcc accepted this revision.Feb 22 2017, 4:44 PM

Nit: I'd use llvm-nm to check the symbol tables of the object files so that we're checking the inputs that the linker actually reads, rather than a byproduct of LTO. Other than that, LGTM.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 22 2017, 4:44 PM
mehdi_amini added inline comments.Feb 22 2017, 4:59 PM
test/COFF/thinlto.ll
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Thanks, looks good!
(and I agree with the idea of using llvm-nm where possible/appropriate)

Nit: I'd use llvm-nm to check the symbol tables of the object files so that we're checking the inputs that the linker actually reads, rather than a byproduct of LTO.

That was my original plan, but it looks like llvm-nm only tells us about main. Is that enough? Is there a way to get it to give us more information? I wrote the test the way I wrote it because I felt just looking at the output from llvm-nm doesn't really tell us if ThinLTO is working as intended.

pcc added a comment.Feb 23 2017, 11:36 AM

Nit: I'd use llvm-nm to check the symbol tables of the object files so that we're checking the inputs that the linker actually reads, rather than a byproduct of LTO.

That was my original plan, but it looks like llvm-nm only tells us about main. Is that enough? Is there a way to get it to give us more information? I wrote the test the way I wrote it because I felt just looking at the output from llvm-nm doesn't really tell us if ThinLTO is working as intended.

Do you mean that main.exe.lto.obj only contains a definition of main? That is what I'd expect to see if foo was imported into main and inlined.

Nit: I'd use llvm-nm to check the symbol tables of the object files so that we're checking the inputs that the linker actually reads, rather than a byproduct of LTO.

That was my original plan, but it looks like llvm-nm only tells us about main. Is that enough? Is there a way to get it to give us more information? I wrote the test the way I wrote it because I felt just looking at the output from llvm-nm doesn't really tell us if ThinLTO is working as intended.

If there is no undefined reference to foo from main, then it means it worked :)

inglorion updated this revision to Diff 89554.Feb 23 2017, 1:12 PM

use llvm-nm instead of looking at the bitcode

inglorion edited the summary of this revision. (Show Details)Feb 23 2017, 1:12 PM
mehdi_amini added inline comments.Feb 23 2017, 1:15 PM
test/COFF/thinlto.ll
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assuming llvm-nm on COFF looks like ELF, what you need to check is not that main is present, but that foo isn't.

pcc added inline comments.Feb 23 2017, 1:15 PM
test/COFF/thinlto.ll
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; CHECK-NOT: U foo?

inglorion updated this revision to Diff 89561.Feb 23 2017, 2:00 PM

check for absence of undefined foo, instead of presence of main

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