Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] ARM test generator

[Paul Brook]

On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this is a very simple test generator for ARM.
>
> The aim is to help test instruction correctness since several people
> already noticed some problems, that are not always easy to
> reproduce in the absence of test infrastructure (a big word for such
> a simple thing).

I suggest creating a separate project for this.

I'm unconvinced how much value this actually adds unless you can get fairly 
extensive coverage.  i.e. the interesting bit is how you generate 
test-arm.txt and test-ref.txt. You should also cover different combinations 
of overlapping source/destination operands.

I wrote reasonably extensive self-checking tests for a subset of NEON. However 
it ended up a bit of a mess, needs rewriting (probably in something other 
than C), doesn't cover some of the hard instructions, and the input generator 
needs a lot of improvement.  I've attached it for reference.

GCC also has a set of tests for the NEON compiler intrinsics.  We've 
considered augmenting those to be runtime tests.

Paul

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