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<h1 class="centered"><a name="top">Testing Details</a></h1>

<p class="fineprint"><em>
   The latest version of this document is always available at
   <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/test.html">
   http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/test.html</a>.
</em></p>

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   To the <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/libstdc++/">libstdc++-v3 homepage</a>.
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<hr />
<h2>Contents</h2>
<ul>
   <li><a href="#org">Testsuite organization and naming conventions</a></li>
   <li><a href="#util">Utilities: abicheck and libv3test</a></li>
   <li><a href="#new">How to write a new test case</a></li>
   <li><a href="#check">Options for running the tests</a></li>
   <li><a href="#debug">Running debug-mode tests</a></li>
   <li><a href="#future">Future</a></li>
   <li><a href="#internals">DejaGNU internals</a></li>
</ul>

<hr />

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<h2><a name="org">Testsuite organization and naming conventions</a></h2>
   <p>
      The directory <em>libsrcdir/testsuite</em> contains the
      individual test cases organized in sub-directories corresponding
      to chapters of the C++ standard (detailed below), the dejagnu
      test harness support files, and sources to various testsuite
      utilities that are packaged in a separate testing library.
   </p>

   <p> All test cases for functionality required by the runtime
   components of the C++ standard (ISO 14882) are files within the
   following directories.
   </p>

   <pre>
17_intro
18_support
19_diagnostics
20_util
21_strings
22_locale
23_containers
25_algorithms
26_numerics
27_io
   </pre>

   <p>
      In addition, the following directories include test files:
   </p>

   <pre>
tr1		  Tests for components as described by the Technical Report on Standard Library Extensions (TR1).
backward	  Tests for backwards compatibility and deprecated features.
demangle	  Tests for __cxa_demangle, the IA 64 C++ ABI demangler
ext		  Tests for extensions.
performance	  Tests for performance analysis, and performance regressions.
thread		  Tests for threads.
   </pre>
   
   <p>
      Some directories don't have test files, but instead contain
      auxiliary information (<a href="#internals">more information</a>):
   </p>

   <pre>
config		  Files for the dejagnu test harness.
lib		  Files for the dejagnu test harness.
libstdc++*     	  Files for the dejagnu test harness.
data		  Sample text files for testing input and output.
   </pre>

   <p>
      Within a directory that includes test files, there may be
      additional subdirectories, or files.  Originally, test cases
      were appended to one file that represented a particular section
      of the chapter under test, and was named accordingly. For
      instance, to test items related to <code> 21.3.6.1 -
      basic_string::find [lib.string::find]</code> in the standard,
      the following was used:
   </p>
   <pre>
21_strings/find.cc
   </pre>   
   <p>
      However, that practice soon became a liability as the test cases
      became huge and unwieldy, and testing new or extended
      functionality (like wide characters or named locales) became
      frustrating, leading to aggressive pruning of test cases on some
      platforms that covered up implementation errors. Now, the test
      suite has a policy of one file, one test case, which solves the
      above issues and gives finer grained results and more manageable
      error debugging. As an example, the test case quoted above
      becomes:
   </p>
   <pre>
21_strings/basic_string/find/char/1.cc
21_strings/basic_string/find/char/2.cc
21_strings/basic_string/find/char/3.cc
21_strings/basic_string/find/wchar_t/1.cc
21_strings/basic_string/find/wchar_t/2.cc
21_strings/basic_string/find/wchar_t/3.cc
   </pre>   

   <p>
      All new tests should be written with the policy of one test
      case, one file in mind. 
   </p>

   <p>
      In addition, there are some special names and suffixes that are
      used within the testsuite to designate particular kinds of
      tests.
   </p>
 
<ul>
<li>
   <em>_xin.cc</em>
   <p>
      This test case expects some kind of interactive input in order
      to finish or pass. At the moment, the interactive tests are not
      run by default. Instead, they are run by hand, like:
   </p>
      <pre> 
g++ 27_io/objects/char/3_xin.cc
cat 27_io/objects/char/3_xin.in | a.out
     </pre> 
</li>
<li>
   <em>.in</em>
   <p>
      This file contains the expected input for the corresponding <em>
      _xin.cc</em> test case.
   </p>
</li>
<li>
   <em>_neg.cc</em>
   <p>
      This test case is expected to fail: it's a negative test. At the
      moment, these are almost always compile time errors.
   </p>
</li>
<li>
   <em>char</em>
   <p>
      This can either be a directory name or part of a longer file
      name, and indicates that this file, or the files within this
      directory are testing the <code>char</code> instantiation of a
      template.
   </p>
</li>
<li>
   <em>wchar_t</em>
   <p>
      This can either be a directory name or part of a longer file
      name, and indicates that this file, or the files within this
      directory are testing the <code>wchar_t</code> instantiation of
      a template. Some hosts do not support <code>wchar_t</code>
      functionality, so for these targets, all of these tests will not
      be run.
   </p>
</li>
<li>
   <em>thread</em>
   <p>
      This can either be a directory name or part of a longer file
      name, and indicates that this file, or the files within this
      directory are testing situations where multiple threads are
      being used.
   </p>
</li>
<li>
   <em>performance</em>
   <p>
      This can either be an enclosing directory name or part of a
      specific file name. This indicates a test that is used to
      analyze runtime performance, for performance regression testing,
      or for other optimization related analysis. At the moment, these
      test cases are not run by default.
   </p>
</li>
</ul>

<hr />
<h2><a name="util">Utilities: abi_check and libv3test</a></h2>
  <p>
   The testsuite directory also contains some files that implement
   functionality that is intended to make writing test cases easier,
   or to avoid duplication, or to provide error checking in a way that
   is consistent across platforms and test harnesses. A stand-alone
   executable, called <em>abi_check</em>, and a static library called
   <em>libv3test</em> are constructed. Both of these items are not
   installed, and only used during testing.
  </p>

  <p>
  These files include the following functionality:
  </p>

  <ul>
     <li>
       <em>testsuite_abi.h</em>,
       <em>testsuite_abi.cc</em>,
       <em>testsuite_abi_check.cc</em>
       <p>
        Creates the executable <em>abi_check</em>.
        Used to check correctness of symbol versioning, visibility of
        exported symbols, and compatibility on symbols in the shared
        library, for hosts that support this feature. More information
        can be found in the ABI documentation <a href="abi.html"> here</a>
       </p>
     </li>
     <li>
       <em>testsuite_allocator.h</em>,
       <em>testsuite_allocator.cc</em>
       <p>
        Contains specialized allocators that keep track of construction
        and destruction. Also, support for overriding global new and
        delete operators, including verification that new and delete
        are called during execution, and that allocation over max_size
        fails.
       </p>
     </li>
     <li>
       <em>testsuite_character.h</em>
       <p>
        Contains <code>std::char_traits</code> and
        <code>std::codecvt</code> specializations for a user-defined
        POD.
       </p>
     </li>
     <li>
       <em>testsuite_hooks.h</em>,
       <em>testsuite_hooks.cc</em>
       <p>
       A large number of utilities, including:
       </p>
       <ul>
         <li>VERIFY</li>
         <li>set_memory_limits</li>
         <li>verify_demangle</li>
         <li>run_tests_wrapped_locale</li>
         <li>run_tests_wrapped_env</li>
         <li>try_named_locale</li>
         <li>try_mkfifo</li>
         <li>func_callback</li>
         <li>counter</li>
         <li>copy_tracker</li>
         <li>copy_constructor</li>
         <li>assignment_operator</li>
         <li>destructor</li>
         <li>pod_char, pod_int and associated char_traits specializations</li>
       </ul>
       <p></p>
     </li>
     <li>
       <em>testsuite_io.h</em>
       <p>
       Error, exception, and constraint checking for
       <code>std::streambuf, std::basic_stringbuf, std::basic_filebuf</code>.
       </p>
     </li>
     <li>
       <em>testsuite_iterators.h</em>
       <p>
       Wrappers for various iterators.
       </p>
     </li>
     <li>
       <em>testsuite_performance.h</em>
       <p>
       A number of class abstractions for performance counters, and
       reporting functions including:
       </p>
      <ul>
         <li>time_counter</li>
         <li>resource_counter</li>
         <li>report_performance</li>
      </ul>
       <p></p> 
     </li>
  </ul>

<hr />
<h2><a name="new">How to write a new test case</a></h2>

   <p>
    The first step in making a new test case is to choose the correct
    directory and file name, given the organization as previously
    described. 
   </p>

   <p>
    All files are copyright the FSF, and GPL'd: this is very
    important.  The first copyright year should correspond to the date
    the file was checked in to CVS.
   </p>

   <p>
     As per the dejagnu instructions, always return 0 from main to
     indicate success.
   </p>

   <p>
   A bunch of utility functions and classes have already been
   abstracted out into the testsuite utility library, <code>
   libv3test</code>. To use this functionality, just include the
   appropriate header file: the library will automatically be linked
   in as part of the testsuite run.
   </p>

   <p>
   For a test that needs to take advantage of the dejagnu test
   harness, what follows below is a list of special keyword that
   harness uses. Basically, a test case contains dg-keywords (see
   dg.exp) indicating what to do and what kinds of behavior are to be
   expected.  New test cases should be written with the new style
   DejaGnu framework in mind.
   </p>

   <p>
    To ease transition, here is the list of dg-keyword documentation
    lifted from dg.exp.
   </p>

<pre>
# The currently supported options are:
#
# dg-prms-id N
#	set prms_id to N
#
# dg-options "options ..." [{ target selector }]
#	specify special options to pass to the tool (eg: compiler)
#
# dg-do do-what-keyword [{ target/xfail selector }]
#	`do-what-keyword' is tool specific and is passed unchanged to
#	${tool}-dg-test.  An example is gcc where `keyword' can be any of:
#	preprocess|compile|assemble|link|run
#	and will do one of: produce a .i, produce a .s, produce a .o,
#	produce an a.out, or produce an a.out and run it (the default is
#	compile).
#
# dg-error regexp comment [{ target/xfail selector } [{.|0|linenum}]]
#	indicate an error message &lt;regexp&gt; is expected on this line
#	(the test fails if it doesn't occur)
#	Linenum=0 for general tool messages (eg: -V arg missing).
#	"." means the current line.
#
# dg-warning regexp comment [{ target/xfail selector } [{.|0|linenum}]]
#	indicate a warning message &lt;regexp&gt; is expected on this line
#	(the test fails if it doesn't occur)
#
# dg-bogus regexp comment [{ target/xfail selector } [{.|0|linenum}]]
#	indicate a bogus error message &lt;regexp&gt; use to occur here
#	(the test fails if it does occur)
#
# dg-build regexp comment [{ target/xfail selector }]
#	indicate the build use to fail for some reason
#	(errors covered here include bad assembler generated, tool crashes,
#	and link failures)
#	(the test fails if it does occur)
#
# dg-excess-errors comment [{ target/xfail selector }]
#	indicate excess errors are expected (any line)
#	(this should only be used sparingly and temporarily)
#
# dg-output regexp [{ target selector }]
#	indicate the expected output of the program is &lt;regexp&gt;
#	(there may be multiple occurrences of this, they are concatenated)
#
# dg-final { tcl code }
#	add some tcl code to be run at the end
#	(there may be multiple occurrences of this, they are concatenated)
#	(unbalanced braces must be \-escaped)
#
# "{ target selector }" is a list of expressions that determine whether the
# test succeeds or fails for a particular target, or in some cases whether the
# option applies for a particular target.  If the case of `dg-do' it specifies
# whether the test case is even attempted on the specified target.
#
# The target selector is always optional.  The format is one of:
#
# { xfail *-*-* ... } - the test is expected to fail for the given targets
# { target *-*-* ... } - the option only applies to the given targets
#
# At least one target must be specified, use *-*-* for "all targets".
# At present it is not possible to specify both `xfail' and `target'.
# "native" may be used in place of "*-*-*".

Example 1: Testing compilation only
// { dg-do compile }

Example 2: Testing for expected warnings on line 36, which all targets fail
// { dg-warning "string literals" "" { xfail *-*-* } 36

Example 3: Testing for expected warnings on line 36
// { dg-warning "string literals" "" { target *-*-* } 36

Example 4: Testing for compilation errors on line 41
// { dg-do compile }
// { dg-error "no match for" "" { target *-*-* } 41 }

Example 5: Testing with special command line settings, or without the
use of pre-compiled headers, in particular the stdc++.h.gch file. Any
options here will override the DEFAULT_CXXFLAGS and PCH_CXXFLAGS set
up in the normal.exp file.
// { dg-options "-O0" { target *-*-* } }
</pre>

   <p>
    More examples can be found in the libstdc++-v3/testsuite/*/*.cc files.
   </p>

<hr />
<h2><a name="check">Options for running the tests</a></h2>

   <p> There are several options for running tests, including testing
   the regression tests, testing a subset of the regression tests,
   testing the performance tests, testing just compilation, testing
   installed tools, etc. In addition, there is a special rule for
   checking the exported symbols of the shared library.
   </p>

   <p>You can check the status of the build without installing it
   using the dejagnu harness, much like the rest of the gcc tools.</p>
   <pre> make check</pre>
   <p>in the <em>libbuilddir</em> directory.</p>
   <p>or</p>
   <pre> make check-target-libstdc++-v3</pre>
   <p>in the <em>gccbuilddir</em> directory.</p>

   <p>
      These commands are functionally equivalent and will create a
      'testsuite' directory underneath <em>libbuilddir</em> containing
      the results of the tests. Two results files will be generated:
      <em> libstdc++.sum</em>, which is a PASS/FAIL summary for each
      test, and <em>libstdc++.log</em> which is a log of the exact
      command line passed to the compiler, the compiler output, and
      the executable output (if any).
   </p>


<p>
To debug the dejagnu test harness during runs, try invoking with a
specific argument to the variable RUNTESTFLAGS, as below.
</p>

<pre>
make check-target-libstdc++-v3 RUNTESTFLAGS="-v"
</pre>
or
<pre>
make check-target-libstdc++-v3 RUNTESTFLAGS="-v -v"
</pre>

<p> To run a subset of the library tests, try using a command like the
following from the <em>libbuilddir/testsuite</em> directory:
</p>
<pre>
runtest --tool libstdc++ normal.exp="`find $srcdir/17_intro -name *.cc`"
</pre>


<p>
There are two ways to run on a simulator: set up DEJAGNU to point to a
specially crafted site.exp, or pass down --target_board flags.
</p>
Example flags to pass down for various embedded builds are as follows:
<pre>
--target=powerpc-eabism (libgloss/sim)
make check-target-libstdc++-v3 RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=powerpc-sim"

--target=calmrisc32 (libgloss/sid)
make check-target-libstdc++-v3 RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=calmrisc32-sid"

--target=xscale-elf (newlib/sim)
make check-target-libstdc++-v3 RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=arm-sim"
</pre>

<p> Also, here is an example of how to run the libstdc++ testsuite for a
multilibed build directory with different ABI settings:
</p>
<pre>
make check-target-libstdc++-v3 RUNTESTFLAGS='--target_board \"unix{-mabi=32,,-mabi=64}\"'
</pre>
 
<p>
You can run the tests with a compiler and library that have already
been installed.  Make sure that the compiler (e.g., <code>g++</code>)
is in your <code>PATH</code>.  If you are using shared libraries, then
you must also ensure that the directory containing the shared version
of libstdc++ is in your <code>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</code>, or equivalent.
If your GCC source tree is at <code>/path/to/gcc</code>, then you can
run the tests as follows:
<pre>
runtest --tool libstdc++ --srcdir=/path/to/gcc/libstdc++-v3/testsuite
</pre>
The testsuite will create a number of files in the directory in which you
run this command,.  Some of those files might use the same name as
files created by other testsuites (like the ones for GCC and G++), so
you should not try to run all the testsuites in parallel from the same
directory.
</p>

   <p> In addition, there are some testing options that are mostly of
   interest to library maintainers and system integrators. As such,
   these tests may not work on all cpu and host combinations, and may need to
   be executed in the <em>libbuilddir/testsuite</em> directory.  These options
   include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
   </p>

   <pre>
   make testsuite_files</pre>
  <p>
    Five files are generated that determine what test files
    are run. These files are:
  </p>
   <ul>
     <li>
     <em>testsuite_files </em>
     <p> This is a list of all the test cases that will be run. Each
      test case is on a separate line, given with an absolute path
      from the <em>libsrcdir/testsuite</em> directory.
     </p>
     </li>

     <li>
     <em>testsuite_files_interactive </em>
     <p> This is a list of all the interactive test cases, using the
     same format as the file list above. These tests are not run by default.
     </p>
     </li>

     <li>
     <em>testsuite_files_performance</em>
     <p> This is a list of all the performance test cases, using the
     same format as the file list above. These tests are not run by default.
     </p>
     </li>

     <li>
     <em>testsuite_thread</em>
     <p> This file indicates that the host system can run tests which
     incolved multiple threads.
     </p>
     </li>

     <li>
     <em>testsuite_wchar_t</em>
     <p> This file indicates that the host system can run the wchar_t
     tests, and corresponds to the macro definition <code>
     _GLIBCXX_USE_WCHAR_T</code> in the file c++config.h.
     </p>
     </li>
    </ul>

   <pre>
   make check-abi</pre>
   <p>The library ABI can be tested. This involves testing the shared
   library against an ABI-defining previous version of symbol exports. </p>

  <pre>
   make check-compile</pre>
   <p>This rule compiles, but does not link or execute, the
   <em>testsuite_files</em> test cases and displays the output on stdout.</p>

   <pre>
   make check-performance</pre>
   <p>This rule runs through the <em>testsuite_files_performance</em>
   test cases and collects information for performance analysis and
   can be used to spot performance regressions. Various timing
   information is collected, as well as number of hard page faults,
   and memory used. This is not run by default, and the implementation
   is in flux.
</p>

   <p>
      We are interested in any strange failures of the
      testsuite; please see <a href="faq/index.html#2_4">FAQ 2.4</a>
      for which files to examine.
   </p>

<hr/>
<h2><a name="debug">Running debug-mode tests</a></h2>
<p>To run the libstdc++ test suite under the <a
  href="debug.html#safe">debug mode</a>,
  edit <code>libstdc++/scripts/testsuite_flags</code> to add the
  compile-time flag <code>-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG</code> to the result
  printed by the <code>--build-cxx</code> option. Additionally, add
  the <code>-D_GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC</code> flag to turn on pedantic
  checking. The libstdc++ test suite should produce precisely the same
  results under debug mode that it does under release mode: any
  deviation indicates an error in either the library or the test
  suite.</p>

<hr />
<h2><a name="future">Future</a></h2>

<p>
Shared runs need to be implemented, for targets that support shared libraries.
</p>

<p>
Diffing of expected output to standard streams needs to be finished off.
</p>

<p>
The V3 testing framework supports, or will eventually support,
additional keywords for the purpose of easing the job of writing
test cases.  All V3-keywords are of the form <code>@xxx@</code>.
Currently plans for supported keywords include:
</p>

<dl>
<dt> <code> @require@ &lt;files&gt; </code> </dt>
<dd>
   <p>
      The existence of &lt;files&gt; is essential for the test to complete
      successfully.  For example, a test case foo.C using bar.baz as
      input file could say
   </p>
   <pre>
	    // @require@ bar.baz</pre>
   <p>
      The special variable % stands for the rootname, e.g. the
      file-name without its `.C' extension.  Example of use (taken
      verbatim from 27_io/filebuf.cc)
   </p>
   <pre>
	   // @require@ %-*.tst %-*.txt</pre>
</dd>
<dt> <code> @diff@ &lt;first-list&gt; &lt;second-list&gt; </code> </dt>
<dd>
   <p>
      After the test case compiles and ran successfully, diff
      &lt;first-list&gt; against &lt;second-list&gt;, these lists should
      have the same length.  The test fails if diff returns non-zero a
      pair of files.
   </p>
</dd>
</dl>

<hr />
<h2><a name="internals">DejaGNU internals</a></h2>

<p>This is information for those looking at making changes to the testsuite
structure, and/or needing to trace dejagnu's actions with --verbose.  This
will not be useful to people who are "merely" adding new tests to the existing
structure.
</p>

<p>The first key point when working with dejagnu is the idea of a "tool".
Files, directories, and functions are all implicitly used when they are
named after the tool in use.  Here, the tool will always be "libstdc++".
</p>

<p>The <code>lib</code> subdir contains support routines.  The
<code>lib/libstdc++.exp</code> file ("support library") is loaded
automagically, and must explicitly load the others.  For example, files can
be copied from the core compiler's support directory into <code>lib</code>.
</p>

<p>Some routines in <code>lib/libstdc++.exp</code> are callbacks, some are
our own.  Callbacks must be prefixed with the name of the tool.  To easily
distinguish the others, by convention our own routines are named "v3-*".
</p>

<p>The next key point when working with dejagnu is "test files".  Any
directory whose name starts with the tool name will be searched for test files.
(We have only one.)  In those directories, any <code>.exp</code> file is
considered a test file, and will be run in turn.  Our main test file is called
<code>normal.exp</code>; it runs all the tests in testsuite_files using the
callbacks loaded from the support library.
</p>

<p>The <code>config</code> directory is searched for any particular "target
board" information unique to this library.  This is currently unused and sets
only default variables.
</p>


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