Extend FileCheck to dump its input annotated with FileCheck's
diagnostics: errors, good matches if -v, and additional information if
-vv. The goal is to make it easier to visualize FileCheck's matching
behavior when debugging.
Each patch in this series implements input annotations for a
particular category of FileCheck diagnostics. While the first few
patches alone are somewhat useful, the annotations become much more
useful as later patches implement annotations for -v and -vv
diagnostics, which show the matching behavior leading up to the error.
This first patch implements boilerplate plus input annotations for
error diagnostics reporting that no matches were found for a
directive. These annotations mark the search ranges of the failed
directives. Instead of using the usual ^~~, which is used by later
patches for good matches, these annotations use X~~ so that this
category of errors is visually distinct.
For example:
$ FileCheck -dump-input=help The following description was requested by -dump-input=help to explain the input annotations printed by -dump-input=always and -dump-input=fail: - L: labels line number L of the input file - T:L labels the match result for a pattern of type T from line L of the check file - X~~ marks search range when no match is found - colors error If you are not seeing color above or in input dumps, try: -color $ FileCheck -v -dump-input=always check1 < input1 |& sed -n '/^Input file/,$p' Input file: <stdin> Check file: check1 -dump-input=help describes the format of the following dump. Full input was: <<<<<< 1: ; abc def 2: ; ghI jkl next:3 X~~~~~~~~ error: no match found >>>>>> $ cat check1 CHECK: abc CHECK-SAME: def CHECK-NEXT: ghi CHECK-SAME: jkl $ cat input1 ; abc def ; ghI jkl
Some additional details related to the boilerplate:
- Enabling: The annotated input dump is enabled by -dump-input, which can also be set via the FILECHECK_OPTS environment variable. Accepted values are help, always, fail, or never. As shown above, help describes the format of the dump. always is helpful when you want to investigate a successful FileCheck run, perhaps for an unexpected pass. -dump-input-on-failure and FILECHECK_DUMP_INPUT_ON_FAILURE remain as a deprecated alias for -dump-input=fail.
- Diagnostics: The usual diagnostics are not suppressed in this mode and are printed first. For brevity in the example above, I've omitted them using a sed command. Sometimes they're perfectly sufficient, and then they make debugging quicker than if you were forced to hunt through a dump of long input looking for the error. If you think they'll get in the way sometimes, keep in mind that it's pretty easy to grep for the start of the input dump, which is <<<.
- Colored Annotations: The annotated input is colored if colors are enabled (enabling colors can be forced using -color). For example, errors are red. However, as in the above example, colors are not vital to reading the annotations.
I don't know how to test color in the output, so any hints here would
be appreciated.