On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 13:20 -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 03/18/2016 01:16 PM, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> > On 03/18/2016 08:14 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> > > I also added a blurb to the dump file when we create these
> > > equivalences
> > > and included a test to verify the code fires.  I verified it
> > > fired on
> > > x86 and x86-64.  It may or may not fire on other targets, so I
> > > left the
> > > test in the i386 specific subdirectory.
> > 
> > This is the sort of thing I'd want to do with rtl unit tests.

Would you like an RTL frontend?  (and something like a 
 gcc/testsuite/rtl.dg/ )

> Yea.  Along the same lines, my patch for the coalescing problem 
> introduces a new bitmap function that I'd like to cover with some
> unit 
> tests.  

Presumably the -fself-test idea could help here?

> I'm sure we're going to find oodles of these things as we 
> continue development and ponder how to better test things than
> scanning 
> dump files.

 

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