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1 @c Copyright (C) 2002-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 @c This is part of the GCC manual.
3 @c For copying conditions, see the file gcc.texi.
4
5 @node Source Tree
6 @chapter Source Tree Structure and Build System
7
8 This chapter describes the structure of the GCC source tree, and how
9 GCC is built. The user documentation for building and installing GCC
10 is in a separate manual (@uref{http://gcc.gnu.org/install/}), with
11 which it is presumed that you are familiar.
12
13 @menu
14 * Configure Terms:: Configuration terminology and history.
15 * Top Level:: The top level source directory.
16 * gcc Directory:: The @file{gcc} subdirectory.
17 @end menu
18
19 @include configterms.texi
20
21 @node Top Level
22 @section Top Level Source Directory
23
24 The top level source directory in a GCC distribution contains several
25 files and directories that are shared with other software
26 distributions such as that of GNU Binutils. It also contains several
27 subdirectories that contain parts of GCC and its runtime libraries:
28
29 @table @file
30 @item boehm-gc
31 The Boehm conservative garbage collector, optionally used as part of
32 the ObjC runtime library when configured with @option{--enable-objc-gc}.
33
34 @item config
35 Autoconf macros and Makefile fragments used throughout the tree.
36
37 @item contrib
38 Contributed scripts that may be found useful in conjunction with GCC@.
39 One of these, @file{contrib/texi2pod.pl}, is used to generate man
40 pages from Texinfo manuals as part of the GCC build process.
41
42 @item fixincludes
43 The support for fixing system headers to work with GCC@. See
44 @file{fixincludes/README} for more information. The headers fixed by
45 this mechanism are installed in @file{@var{libsubdir}/include-fixed}.
46 Along with those headers, @file{README-fixinc} is also installed, as
47 @file{@var{libsubdir}/include-fixed/README}.
48
49 @item gcc
50 The main sources of GCC itself (except for runtime libraries),
51 including optimizers, support for different target architectures,
52 language front ends, and testsuites. @xref{gcc Directory, , The
53 @file{gcc} Subdirectory}, for details.
54
55 @item gnattools
56 Support tools for GNAT.
57
58 @item include
59 Headers for the @code{libiberty} library.
60
61 @item intl
62 GNU @code{libintl}, from GNU @code{gettext}, for systems which do not
63 include it in @code{libc}.
64
65 @item libada
66 The Ada runtime library.
67
68 @item libatomic
69 The runtime support library for atomic operations (e.g.@: for @code{__sync}
70 and @code{__atomic}).
71
72 @item libcpp
73 The C preprocessor library.
74
75 @item libdecnumber
76 The Decimal Float support library.
77
78 @item libffi
79 The @code{libffi} library, used as part of the Go runtime library.
80
81 @item libgcc
82 The GCC runtime library.
83
84 @item libgfortran
85 The Fortran runtime library.
86
87 @item libgo
88 The Go runtime library. The bulk of this library is mirrored from the
89 @uref{https://github.com/@/golang/go, master Go repository}.
90
91 @item libgomp
92 The GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime Library.
93
94 @item libiberty
95 The @code{libiberty} library, used for portability and for some
96 generally useful data structures and algorithms. @xref{Top, ,
97 Introduction, libiberty, @sc{gnu} libiberty}, for more information
98 about this library.
99
100 @item libitm
101 The runtime support library for transactional memory.
102
103 @item libobjc
104 The Objective-C and Objective-C++ runtime library.
105
106 @item libquadmath
107 The runtime support library for quad-precision math operations.
108
109 @item libphobos
110 The D standard and runtime library. The bulk of this library is mirrored
111 from the @uref{https://github.com/@/dlang, master D repositories}.
112
113 @item libssp
114 The Stack protector runtime library.
115
116 @item libstdc++-v3
117 The C++ runtime library.
118
119 @item lto-plugin
120 Plugin used by the linker if link-time optimizations are enabled.
121
122 @item maintainer-scripts
123 Scripts used by the @code{gccadmin} account on @code{gcc.gnu.org}.
124
125 @item zlib
126 The @code{zlib} compression library, used for compressing and
127 uncompressing GCC's intermediate language in LTO object files.
128 @end table
129
130 The build system in the top level directory, including how recursion
131 into subdirectories works and how building runtime libraries for
132 multilibs is handled, is documented in a separate manual, included
133 with GNU Binutils. @xref{Top, , GNU configure and build system,
134 configure, The GNU configure and build system}, for details.
135
136 @node gcc Directory
137 @section The @file{gcc} Subdirectory
138
139 The @file{gcc} directory contains many files that are part of the C
140 sources of GCC, other files used as part of the configuration and
141 build process, and subdirectories including documentation and a
142 testsuite. The files that are sources of GCC are documented in a
143 separate chapter. @xref{Passes, , Passes and Files of the Compiler}.
144
145 @menu
146 * Subdirectories:: Subdirectories of @file{gcc}.
147 * Configuration:: The configuration process, and the files it uses.
148 * Build:: The build system in the @file{gcc} directory.
149 * Makefile:: Targets in @file{gcc/Makefile}.
150 * Library Files:: Library source files and headers under @file{gcc/}.
151 * Headers:: Headers installed by GCC.
152 * Documentation:: Building documentation in GCC.
153 * Front End:: Anatomy of a language front end.
154 * Back End:: Anatomy of a target back end.
155 @end menu
156
157 @node Subdirectories
158 @subsection Subdirectories of @file{gcc}
159
160 The @file{gcc} directory contains the following subdirectories:
161
162 @table @file
163 @item @var{language}
164 Subdirectories for various languages. Directories containing a file
165 @file{config-lang.in} are language subdirectories. The contents of
166 the subdirectories @file{c} (for C), @file{cp} (for C++),
167 @file{objc} (for Objective-C), @file{objcp} (for Objective-C++),
168 and @file{lto} (for LTO) are documented in this
169 manual (@pxref{Passes, , Passes and Files of the Compiler});
170 those for other languages are not. @xref{Front End, ,
171 Anatomy of a Language Front End}, for details of the files in these
172 directories.
173
174 @item common
175 Source files shared between the compiler drivers (such as
176 @command{gcc}) and the compilers proper (such as @file{cc1}). If an
177 architecture defines target hooks shared between those places, it also
178 has a subdirectory in @file{common/config}. @xref{Target Structure}.
179
180 @item config
181 Configuration files for supported architectures and operating
182 systems. @xref{Back End, , Anatomy of a Target Back End}, for
183 details of the files in this directory.
184
185 @item doc
186 Texinfo documentation for GCC, together with automatically generated
187 man pages and support for converting the installation manual to
188 HTML@. @xref{Documentation}.
189
190 @item ginclude
191 System headers installed by GCC, mainly those required by the C
192 standard of freestanding implementations. @xref{Headers, , Headers
193 Installed by GCC}, for details of when these and other headers are
194 installed.
195
196 @item po
197 Message catalogs with translations of messages produced by GCC into
198 various languages, @file{@var{language}.po}. This directory also
199 contains @file{gcc.pot}, the template for these message catalogues,
200 @file{exgettext}, a wrapper around @command{gettext} to extract the
201 messages from the GCC sources and create @file{gcc.pot}, which is run
202 by @samp{make gcc.pot}, and @file{EXCLUDES}, a list of files from
203 which messages should not be extracted.
204
205 @item testsuite
206 The GCC testsuites (except for those for runtime libraries).
207 @xref{Testsuites}.
208 @end table
209
210 @node Configuration
211 @subsection Configuration in the @file{gcc} Directory
212
213 The @file{gcc} directory is configured with an Autoconf-generated
214 script @file{configure}. The @file{configure} script is generated
215 from @file{configure.ac} and @file{aclocal.m4}. From the files
216 @file{configure.ac} and @file{acconfig.h}, Autoheader generates the
217 file @file{config.in}. The file @file{cstamp-h.in} is used as a
218 timestamp.
219
220 @menu
221 * Config Fragments:: Scripts used by @file{configure}.
222 * System Config:: The @file{config.build}, @file{config.host}, and
223 @file{config.gcc} files.
224 * Configuration Files:: Files created by running @file{configure}.
225 @end menu
226
227 @node Config Fragments
228 @subsubsection Scripts Used by @file{configure}
229
230 @file{configure} uses some other scripts to help in its work:
231
232 @itemize @bullet
233 @item The standard GNU @file{config.sub} and @file{config.guess}
234 files, kept in the top level directory, are used.
235
236 @item The file @file{config.gcc} is used to handle configuration
237 specific to the particular target machine. The file
238 @file{config.build} is used to handle configuration specific to the
239 particular build machine. The file @file{config.host} is used to handle
240 configuration specific to the particular host machine. (In general,
241 these should only be used for features that cannot reasonably be tested in
242 Autoconf feature tests.)
243 @xref{System Config, , The @file{config.build}; @file{config.host};
244 and @file{config.gcc} Files}, for details of the contents of these files.
245
246 @item Each language subdirectory has a file
247 @file{@var{language}/config-lang.in} that is used for
248 front-end-specific configuration. @xref{Front End Config, , The Front
249 End @file{config-lang.in} File}, for details of this file.
250
251 @item A helper script @file{configure.frag} is used as part of
252 creating the output of @file{configure}.
253 @end itemize
254
255 @node System Config
256 @subsubsection The @file{config.build}; @file{config.host}; and @file{config.gcc} Files
257
258 The @file{config.build} file contains specific rules for particular systems
259 which GCC is built on. This should be used as rarely as possible, as the
260 behavior of the build system can always be detected by autoconf.
261
262 The @file{config.host} file contains specific rules for particular systems
263 which GCC will run on. This is rarely needed.
264
265 The @file{config.gcc} file contains specific rules for particular systems
266 which GCC will generate code for. This is usually needed.
267
268 Each file has a list of the shell variables it sets, with descriptions, at the
269 top of the file.
270
271 FIXME: document the contents of these files, and what variables should
272 be set to control build, host and target configuration.
273
274 @include configfiles.texi
275
276 @node Build
277 @subsection Build System in the @file{gcc} Directory
278
279 FIXME: describe the build system, including what is built in what
280 stages. Also list the various source files that are used in the build
281 process but aren't source files of GCC itself and so aren't documented
282 below (@pxref{Passes}).
283
284 @include makefile.texi
285
286 @node Library Files
287 @subsection Library Source Files and Headers under the @file{gcc} Directory
288
289 FIXME: list here, with explanation, all the C source files and headers
290 under the @file{gcc} directory that aren't built into the GCC
291 executable but rather are part of runtime libraries and object files,
292 such as @file{crtstuff.c} and @file{unwind-dw2.c}. @xref{Headers, ,
293 Headers Installed by GCC}, for more information about the
294 @file{ginclude} directory.
295
296 @node Headers
297 @subsection Headers Installed by GCC
298
299 In general, GCC expects the system C library to provide most of the
300 headers to be used with it. However, GCC will fix those headers if
301 necessary to make them work with GCC, and will install some headers
302 required of freestanding implementations. These headers are installed
303 in @file{@var{libsubdir}/include}. Headers for non-C runtime
304 libraries are also installed by GCC; these are not documented here.
305 (FIXME: document them somewhere.)
306
307 Several of the headers GCC installs are in the @file{ginclude}
308 directory. These headers, @file{iso646.h},
309 @file{stdarg.h}, @file{stdbool.h}, and @file{stddef.h},
310 are installed in @file{@var{libsubdir}/include},
311 unless the target Makefile fragment (@pxref{Target Fragment})
312 overrides this by setting @code{USER_H}.
313
314 In addition to these headers and those generated by fixing system
315 headers to work with GCC, some other headers may also be installed in
316 @file{@var{libsubdir}/include}. @file{config.gcc} may set
317 @code{extra_headers}; this specifies additional headers under
318 @file{config} to be installed on some systems.
319
320 GCC installs its own version of @code{<float.h>}, from @file{ginclude/float.h}.
321 This is done to cope with command-line options that change the
322 representation of floating point numbers.
323
324 GCC also installs its own version of @code{<limits.h>}; this is generated
325 from @file{glimits.h}, together with @file{limitx.h} and
326 @file{limity.h} if the system also has its own version of
327 @code{<limits.h>}. (GCC provides its own header because it is
328 required of ISO C freestanding implementations, but needs to include
329 the system header from its own header as well because other standards
330 such as POSIX specify additional values to be defined in
331 @code{<limits.h>}.) The system's @code{<limits.h>} header is used via
332 @file{@var{libsubdir}/include/syslimits.h}, which is copied from
333 @file{gsyslimits.h} if it does not need fixing to work with GCC; if it
334 needs fixing, @file{syslimits.h} is the fixed copy.
335
336 GCC can also install @code{<tgmath.h>}. It will do this when
337 @file{config.gcc} sets @code{use_gcc_tgmath} to @code{yes}.
338
339 @node Documentation
340 @subsection Building Documentation
341
342 The main GCC documentation is in the form of manuals in Texinfo
343 format. These are installed in Info format; DVI versions may be
344 generated by @samp{make dvi}, PDF versions by @samp{make pdf}, and
345 HTML versions by @samp{make html}. In addition, some man pages are
346 generated from the Texinfo manuals, there are some other text files
347 with miscellaneous documentation, and runtime libraries have their own
348 documentation outside the @file{gcc} directory. FIXME: document the
349 documentation for runtime libraries somewhere.
350
351 @menu
352 * Texinfo Manuals:: GCC manuals in Texinfo format.
353 * Man Page Generation:: Generating man pages from Texinfo manuals.
354 * Miscellaneous Docs:: Miscellaneous text files with documentation.
355 @end menu
356
357 @node Texinfo Manuals
358 @subsubsection Texinfo Manuals
359
360 The manuals for GCC as a whole, and the C and C++ front ends, are in
361 files @file{doc/*.texi}. Other front ends have their own manuals in
362 files @file{@var{language}/*.texi}. Common files
363 @file{doc/include/*.texi} are provided which may be included in
364 multiple manuals; the following files are in @file{doc/include}:
365
366 @table @file
367 @item fdl.texi
368 The GNU Free Documentation License.
369 @item funding.texi
370 The section ``Funding Free Software''.
371 @item gcc-common.texi
372 Common definitions for manuals.
373 @item gpl_v3.texi
374 The GNU General Public License.
375 @item texinfo.tex
376 A copy of @file{texinfo.tex} known to work with the GCC manuals.
377 @end table
378
379 DVI-formatted manuals are generated by @samp{make dvi}, which uses
380 @command{texi2dvi} (via the Makefile macro @code{$(TEXI2DVI)}).
381 PDF-formatted manuals are generated by @samp{make pdf}, which uses
382 @command{texi2pdf} (via the Makefile macro @code{$(TEXI2PDF)}). HTML
383 formatted manuals are generated by @samp{make html}. Info
384 manuals are generated by @samp{make info} (which is run as part of
385 a bootstrap); this generates the manuals in the source directory,
386 using @command{makeinfo} via the Makefile macro @code{$(MAKEINFO)},
387 and they are included in release distributions.
388
389 Manuals are also provided on the GCC web site, in both HTML and
390 PostScript forms. This is done via the script
391 @file{maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_git}. Each manual to be
392 provided online must be listed in the definition of @code{MANUALS} in
393 that file; a file @file{@var{name}.texi} must only appear once in the
394 source tree, and the output manual must have the same name as the
395 source file. (However, other Texinfo files, included in manuals but
396 not themselves the root files of manuals, may have names that appear
397 more than once in the source tree.) The manual file
398 @file{@var{name}.texi} should only include other files in its own
399 directory or in @file{doc/include}. HTML manuals will be generated by
400 @samp{makeinfo --html}, PostScript manuals by @command{texi2dvi}
401 and @command{dvips}, and PDF manuals by @command{texi2pdf}.
402 All Texinfo files that are parts of manuals must
403 be version-controlled, even if they are generated files, for the
404 generation of online manuals to work.
405
406 The installation manual, @file{doc/install.texi}, is also provided on
407 the GCC web site. The HTML version is generated by the script
408 @file{doc/install.texi2html}.
409
410 @node Man Page Generation
411 @subsubsection Man Page Generation
412
413 Because of user demand, in addition to full Texinfo manuals, man pages
414 are provided which contain extracts from those manuals. These man
415 pages are generated from the Texinfo manuals using
416 @file{contrib/texi2pod.pl} and @command{pod2man}. (The man page for
417 @command{g++}, @file{cp/g++.1}, just contains a @samp{.so} reference
418 to @file{gcc.1}, but all the other man pages are generated from
419 Texinfo manuals.)
420
421 Because many systems may not have the necessary tools installed to
422 generate the man pages, they are only generated if the
423 @file{configure} script detects that recent enough tools are
424 installed, and the Makefiles allow generating man pages to fail
425 without aborting the build. Man pages are also included in release
426 distributions. They are generated in the source directory.
427
428 Magic comments in Texinfo files starting @samp{@@c man} control what
429 parts of a Texinfo file go into a man page. Only a subset of Texinfo
430 is supported by @file{texi2pod.pl}, and it may be necessary to add
431 support for more Texinfo features to this script when generating new
432 man pages. To improve the man page output, some special Texinfo
433 macros are provided in @file{doc/include/gcc-common.texi} which
434 @file{texi2pod.pl} understands:
435
436 @table @code
437 @item @@gcctabopt
438 Use in the form @samp{@@table @@gcctabopt} for tables of options,
439 where for printed output the effect of @samp{@@code} is better than
440 that of @samp{@@option} but for man page output a different effect is
441 wanted.
442 @item @@gccoptlist
443 Use for summary lists of options in manuals.
444 @item @@gol
445 Use at the end of each line inside @samp{@@gccoptlist}. This is
446 necessary to avoid problems with differences in how the
447 @samp{@@gccoptlist} macro is handled by different Texinfo formatters.
448 @end table
449
450 FIXME: describe the @file{texi2pod.pl} input language and magic
451 comments in more detail.
452
453 @node Miscellaneous Docs
454 @subsubsection Miscellaneous Documentation
455
456 In addition to the formal documentation that is installed by GCC,
457 there are several other text files in the @file{gcc} subdirectory
458 with miscellaneous documentation:
459
460 @table @file
461 @item ABOUT-GCC-NLS
462 Notes on GCC's Native Language Support. FIXME: this should be part of
463 this manual rather than a separate file.
464 @item ABOUT-NLS
465 Notes on the Free Translation Project.
466 @item COPYING
467 @itemx COPYING3
468 The GNU General Public License, Versions 2 and 3.
469 @item COPYING.LIB
470 @itemx COPYING3.LIB
471 The GNU Lesser General Public License, Versions 2.1 and 3.
472 @item *ChangeLog*
473 @itemx */ChangeLog*
474 Change log files for various parts of GCC@.
475 @item LANGUAGES
476 Details of a few changes to the GCC front-end interface. FIXME: the
477 information in this file should be part of general documentation of
478 the front-end interface in this manual.
479 @item ONEWS
480 Information about new features in old versions of GCC@. (For recent
481 versions, the information is on the GCC web site.)
482 @item README.Portability
483 Information about portability issues when writing code in GCC@. FIXME:
484 why isn't this part of this manual or of the GCC Coding Conventions?
485 @end table
486
487 FIXME: document such files in subdirectories, at least @file{config},
488 @file{c}, @file{cp}, @file{objc}, @file{testsuite}.
489
490 @node Front End
491 @subsection Anatomy of a Language Front End
492
493 A front end for a language in GCC has the following parts:
494
495 @itemize @bullet
496 @item
497 A directory @file{@var{language}} under @file{gcc} containing source
498 files for that front end. @xref{Front End Directory, , The Front End
499 @file{@var{language}} Directory}, for details.
500 @item
501 A mention of the language in the list of supported languages in
502 @file{gcc/doc/install.texi}.
503 @item
504 A mention of the name under which the language's runtime library is
505 recognized by @option{--enable-shared=@var{package}} in the
506 documentation of that option in @file{gcc/doc/install.texi}.
507 @item
508 A mention of any special prerequisites for building the front end in
509 the documentation of prerequisites in @file{gcc/doc/install.texi}.
510 @item
511 Details of contributors to that front end in
512 @file{gcc/doc/contrib.texi}. If the details are in that front end's
513 own manual then there should be a link to that manual's list in
514 @file{contrib.texi}.
515 @item
516 Information about support for that language in
517 @file{gcc/doc/frontends.texi}.
518 @item
519 Information about standards for that language, and the front end's
520 support for them, in @file{gcc/doc/standards.texi}. This may be a
521 link to such information in the front end's own manual.
522 @item
523 Details of source file suffixes for that language and @option{-x
524 @var{lang}} options supported, in @file{gcc/doc/invoke.texi}.
525 @item
526 Entries in @code{default_compilers} in @file{gcc.c} for source file
527 suffixes for that language.
528 @item
529 Preferably testsuites, which may be under @file{gcc/testsuite} or
530 runtime library directories. FIXME: document somewhere how to write
531 testsuite harnesses.
532 @item
533 Probably a runtime library for the language, outside the @file{gcc}
534 directory. FIXME: document this further.
535 @item
536 Details of the directories of any runtime libraries in
537 @file{gcc/doc/sourcebuild.texi}.
538 @item
539 Check targets in @file{Makefile.def} for the top-level @file{Makefile}
540 to check just the compiler or the compiler and runtime library for the
541 language.
542 @end itemize
543
544 If the front end is added to the official GCC source repository, the
545 following are also necessary:
546
547 @itemize @bullet
548 @item
549 At least one Bugzilla component for bugs in that front end and runtime
550 libraries. This category needs to be added to the Bugzilla database.
551 @item
552 Normally, one or more maintainers of that front end listed in
553 @file{MAINTAINERS}.
554 @item
555 Mentions on the GCC web site in @file{index.html} and
556 @file{frontends.html}, with any relevant links on
557 @file{readings.html}. (Front ends that are not an official part of
558 GCC may also be listed on @file{frontends.html}, with relevant links.)
559 @item
560 A news item on @file{index.html}, and possibly an announcement on the
561 @email{gcc-announce@@gcc.gnu.org} mailing list.
562 @item
563 The front end's manuals should be mentioned in
564 @file{maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_git} (@pxref{Texinfo Manuals})
565 and the online manuals should be linked to from
566 @file{onlinedocs/index.html}.
567 @item
568 Any old releases or CVS repositories of the front end, before its
569 inclusion in GCC, should be made available on the GCC web site at
570 @uref{https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/old-releases/}.
571 @item
572 The release and snapshot script @file{maintainer-scripts/gcc_release}
573 should be updated to generate appropriate tarballs for this front end.
574 @item
575 If this front end includes its own version files that include the
576 current date, @file{maintainer-scripts/update_version} should be
577 updated accordingly.
578 @end itemize
579
580 @menu
581 * Front End Directory:: The front end @file{@var{language}} directory.
582 * Front End Config:: The front end @file{config-lang.in} file.
583 * Front End Makefile:: The front end @file{Make-lang.in} file.
584 @end menu
585
586 @node Front End Directory
587 @subsubsection The Front End @file{@var{language}} Directory
588
589 A front end @file{@var{language}} directory contains the source files
590 of that front end (but not of any runtime libraries, which should be
591 outside the @file{gcc} directory). This includes documentation, and
592 possibly some subsidiary programs built alongside the front end.
593 Certain files are special and other parts of the compiler depend on
594 their names:
595
596 @table @file
597 @item config-lang.in
598 This file is required in all language subdirectories. @xref{Front End
599 Config, , The Front End @file{config-lang.in} File}, for details of
600 its contents
601 @item Make-lang.in
602 This file is required in all language subdirectories. @xref{Front End
603 Makefile, , The Front End @file{Make-lang.in} File}, for details of its
604 contents.
605 @item lang.opt
606 This file registers the set of switches that the front end accepts on
607 the command line, and their @option{--help} text. @xref{Options}.
608 @item lang-specs.h
609 This file provides entries for @code{default_compilers} in
610 @file{gcc.c} which override the default of giving an error that a
611 compiler for that language is not installed.
612 @item @var{language}-tree.def
613 This file, which need not exist, defines any language-specific tree
614 codes.
615 @end table
616
617 @node Front End Config
618 @subsubsection The Front End @file{config-lang.in} File
619
620 Each language subdirectory contains a @file{config-lang.in} file.
621 This file is a shell script that may define some variables describing
622 the language:
623
624 @table @code
625 @item language
626 This definition must be present, and gives the name of the language
627 for some purposes such as arguments to @option{--enable-languages}.
628 @item lang_requires
629 If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) language front ends
630 other than C that this front end requires to be enabled (with the
631 names given being their @code{language} settings). For example, the
632 Obj-C++ front end depends on the C++ and ObjC front ends, so sets
633 @samp{lang_requires="objc c++"}.
634 @item subdir_requires
635 If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) front end directories
636 other than C that this front end requires to be present. For example,
637 the Objective-C++ front end uses source files from the C++ and
638 Objective-C front ends, so sets @samp{subdir_requires="cp objc"}.
639 @item target_libs
640 If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) targets in the top
641 level @file{Makefile} to build the runtime libraries for this
642 language, such as @code{target-libobjc}.
643 @item lang_dirs
644 If defined, this variable lists (space-separated) top level
645 directories (parallel to @file{gcc}), apart from the runtime libraries,
646 that should not be configured if this front end is not built.
647 @item build_by_default
648 If defined to @samp{no}, this language front end is not built unless
649 enabled in a @option{--enable-languages} argument. Otherwise, front
650 ends are built by default, subject to any special logic in
651 @file{configure.ac} (as is present to disable the Ada front end if the
652 Ada compiler is not already installed).
653 @item boot_language
654 If defined to @samp{yes}, this front end is built in stage1 of the
655 bootstrap. This is only relevant to front ends written in their own
656 languages.
657 @item compilers
658 If defined, a space-separated list of compiler executables that will
659 be run by the driver. The names here will each end
660 with @samp{\$(exeext)}.
661 @item outputs
662 If defined, a space-separated list of files that should be generated
663 by @file{configure} substituting values in them. This mechanism can
664 be used to create a file @file{@var{language}/Makefile} from
665 @file{@var{language}/Makefile.in}, but this is deprecated, building
666 everything from the single @file{gcc/Makefile} is preferred.
667 @item gtfiles
668 If defined, a space-separated list of files that should be scanned by
669 @file{gengtype.c} to generate the garbage collection tables and routines for
670 this language. This excludes the files that are common to all front
671 ends. @xref{Type Information}.
672
673 @end table
674
675 @node Front End Makefile
676 @subsubsection The Front End @file{Make-lang.in} File
677
678 Each language subdirectory contains a @file{Make-lang.in} file. It contains
679 targets @code{@var{lang}.@var{hook}} (where @code{@var{lang}} is the
680 setting of @code{language} in @file{config-lang.in}) for the following
681 values of @code{@var{hook}}, and any other Makefile rules required to
682 build those targets (which may if necessary use other Makefiles
683 specified in @code{outputs} in @file{config-lang.in}, although this is
684 deprecated). It also adds any testsuite targets that can use the
685 standard rule in @file{gcc/Makefile.in} to the variable
686 @code{lang_checks}.
687
688 @table @code
689 @item all.cross
690 @itemx start.encap
691 @itemx rest.encap
692 FIXME: exactly what goes in each of these targets?
693 @item tags
694 Build an @command{etags} @file{TAGS} file in the language subdirectory
695 in the source tree.
696 @item info
697 Build info documentation for the front end, in the build directory.
698 This target is only called by @samp{make bootstrap} if a suitable
699 version of @command{makeinfo} is available, so does not need to check
700 for this, and should fail if an error occurs.
701 @item dvi
702 Build DVI documentation for the front end, in the build directory.
703 This should be done using @code{$(TEXI2DVI)}, with appropriate
704 @option{-I} arguments pointing to directories of included files.
705 @item pdf
706 Build PDF documentation for the front end, in the build directory.
707 This should be done using @code{$(TEXI2PDF)}, with appropriate
708 @option{-I} arguments pointing to directories of included files.
709 @item html
710 Build HTML documentation for the front end, in the build directory.
711 @item man
712 Build generated man pages for the front end from Texinfo manuals
713 (@pxref{Man Page Generation}), in the build directory. This target
714 is only called if the necessary tools are available, but should ignore
715 errors so as not to stop the build if errors occur; man pages are
716 optional and the tools involved may be installed in a broken way.
717 @item install-common
718 Install everything that is part of the front end, apart from the
719 compiler executables listed in @code{compilers} in
720 @file{config-lang.in}.
721 @item install-info
722 Install info documentation for the front end, if it is present in the
723 source directory. This target should have dependencies on info files
724 that should be installed.
725 @item install-man
726 Install man pages for the front end. This target should ignore
727 errors.
728 @item install-plugin
729 Install headers needed for plugins.
730 @item srcextra
731 Copies its dependencies into the source directory. This generally should
732 be used for generated files such as Bison output files which are not
733 version-controlled, but should be included in any release tarballs. This
734 target will be executed during a bootstrap if
735 @samp{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir} was specified as a
736 @file{configure} option.
737 @item srcinfo
738 @itemx srcman
739 Copies its dependencies into the source directory. These targets will be
740 executed during a bootstrap if @samp{--enable-generated-files-in-srcdir}
741 was specified as a @file{configure} option.
742 @item uninstall
743 Uninstall files installed by installing the compiler. This is
744 currently documented not to be supported, so the hook need not do
745 anything.
746 @item mostlyclean
747 @itemx clean
748 @itemx distclean
749 @itemx maintainer-clean
750 The language parts of the standard GNU
751 @samp{*clean} targets. @xref{Standard Targets, , Standard Targets for
752 Users, standards, GNU Coding Standards}, for details of the standard
753 targets. For GCC, @code{maintainer-clean} should delete
754 all generated files in the source directory that are not version-controlled,
755 but should not delete anything that is.
756 @end table
757
758 @file{Make-lang.in} must also define a variable @code{@var{lang}_OBJS}
759 to a list of host object files that are used by that language.
760
761 @node Back End
762 @subsection Anatomy of a Target Back End
763
764 A back end for a target architecture in GCC has the following parts:
765
766 @itemize @bullet
767 @item
768 A directory @file{@var{machine}} under @file{gcc/config}, containing a
769 machine description @file{@var{machine}.md} file (@pxref{Machine Desc,
770 , Machine Descriptions}), header files @file{@var{machine}.h} and
771 @file{@var{machine}-protos.h} and a source file @file{@var{machine}.c}
772 (@pxref{Target Macros, , Target Description Macros and Functions}),
773 possibly a target Makefile fragment @file{t-@var{machine}}
774 (@pxref{Target Fragment, , The Target Makefile Fragment}), and maybe
775 some other files. The names of these files may be changed from the
776 defaults given by explicit specifications in @file{config.gcc}.
777 @item
778 If necessary, a file @file{@var{machine}-modes.def} in the
779 @file{@var{machine}} directory, containing additional machine modes to
780 represent condition codes. @xref{Condition Code}, for further details.
781 @item
782 An optional @file{@var{machine}.opt} file in the @file{@var{machine}}
783 directory, containing a list of target-specific options. You can also
784 add other option files using the @code{extra_options} variable in
785 @file{config.gcc}. @xref{Options}.
786 @item
787 Entries in @file{config.gcc} (@pxref{System Config, , The
788 @file{config.gcc} File}) for the systems with this target
789 architecture.
790 @item
791 Documentation in @file{gcc/doc/invoke.texi} for any command-line
792 options supported by this target (@pxref{Run-time Target, , Run-time
793 Target Specification}). This means both entries in the summary table
794 of options and details of the individual options.
795 @item
796 Documentation in @file{gcc/doc/extend.texi} for any target-specific
797 attributes supported (@pxref{Target Attributes, , Defining
798 target-specific uses of @code{__attribute__}}), including where the
799 same attribute is already supported on some targets, which are
800 enumerated in the manual.
801 @item
802 Documentation in @file{gcc/doc/extend.texi} for any target-specific
803 pragmas supported.
804 @item
805 Documentation in @file{gcc/doc/extend.texi} of any target-specific
806 built-in functions supported.
807 @item
808 Documentation in @file{gcc/doc/extend.texi} of any target-specific
809 format checking styles supported.
810 @item
811 Documentation in @file{gcc/doc/md.texi} of any target-specific
812 constraint letters (@pxref{Machine Constraints, , Constraints for
813 Particular Machines}).
814 @item
815 A note in @file{gcc/doc/contrib.texi} under the person or people who
816 contributed the target support.
817 @item
818 Entries in @file{gcc/doc/install.texi} for all target triplets
819 supported with this target architecture, giving details of any special
820 notes about installation for this target, or saying that there are no
821 special notes if there are none.
822 @item
823 Possibly other support outside the @file{gcc} directory for runtime
824 libraries. FIXME: reference docs for this. The @code{libstdc++} porting
825 manual needs to be installed as info for this to work, or to be a
826 chapter of this manual.
827 @end itemize
828
829 The @file{@var{machine}.h} header is included very early in GCC's
830 standard sequence of header files, while @file{@var{machine}-protos.h}
831 is included late in the sequence. Thus @file{@var{machine}-protos.h}
832 can include declarations referencing types that are not defined when
833 @file{@var{machine}.h} is included, specifically including those from
834 @file{rtl.h} and @file{tree.h}. Since both RTL and tree types may not
835 be available in every context where @file{@var{machine}-protos.h} is
836 included, in this file you should guard declarations using these types
837 inside appropriate @code{#ifdef RTX_CODE} or @code{#ifdef TREE_CODE}
838 conditional code segments.
839
840 If the backend uses shared data structures that require @code{GTY} markers
841 for garbage collection (@pxref{Type Information}), you must declare those
842 in @file{@var{machine}.h} rather than @file{@var{machine}-protos.h}.
843 Any definitions required for building libgcc must also go in
844 @file{@var{machine}.h}.
845
846 GCC uses the macro @code{IN_TARGET_CODE} to distinguish between
847 machine-specific @file{.c} and @file{.cc} files and
848 machine-independent @file{.c} and @file{.cc} files. Machine-specific
849 files should use the directive:
850
851 @example
852 #define IN_TARGET_CODE 1
853 @end example
854
855 before including @code{config.h}.
856
857 If the back end is added to the official GCC source repository, the
858 following are also necessary:
859
860 @itemize @bullet
861 @item
862 An entry for the target architecture in @file{readings.html} on the
863 GCC web site, with any relevant links.
864 @item
865 Details of the properties of the back end and target architecture in
866 @file{backends.html} on the GCC web site.
867 @item
868 A news item about the contribution of support for that target
869 architecture, in @file{index.html} on the GCC web site.
870 @item
871 Normally, one or more maintainers of that target listed in
872 @file{MAINTAINERS}. Some existing architectures may be unmaintained,
873 but it would be unusual to add support for a target that does not have
874 a maintainer when support is added.
875 @item
876 Target triplets covering all @file{config.gcc} stanzas for the target,
877 in the list in @file{contrib/config-list.mk}.
878 @end itemize
879
880 @node Testsuites
881 @chapter Testsuites
882
883 GCC contains several testsuites to help maintain compiler quality.
884 Most of the runtime libraries and language front ends in GCC have
885 testsuites. Currently only the C language testsuites are documented
886 here; FIXME: document the others.
887
888 @menu
889 * Test Idioms:: Idioms used in testsuite code.
890 * Test Directives:: Directives used within DejaGnu tests.
891 * Ada Tests:: The Ada language testsuites.
892 * C Tests:: The C language testsuites.
893 * LTO Testing:: Support for testing link-time optimizations.
894 * gcov Testing:: Support for testing gcov.
895 * profopt Testing:: Support for testing profile-directed optimizations.
896 * compat Testing:: Support for testing binary compatibility.
897 * Torture Tests:: Support for torture testing using multiple options.
898 * GIMPLE Tests:: Support for testing GIMPLE passes.
899 * RTL Tests:: Support for testing RTL passes.
900 @end menu
901
902 @node Test Idioms
903 @section Idioms Used in Testsuite Code
904
905 In general, C testcases have a trailing @file{-@var{n}.c}, starting
906 with @file{-1.c}, in case other testcases with similar names are added
907 later. If the test is a test of some well-defined feature, it should
908 have a name referring to that feature such as
909 @file{@var{feature}-1.c}. If it does not test a well-defined feature
910 but just happens to exercise a bug somewhere in the compiler, and a
911 bug report has been filed for this bug in the GCC bug database,
912 @file{pr@var{bug-number}-1.c} is the appropriate form of name.
913 Otherwise (for miscellaneous bugs not filed in the GCC bug database),
914 and previously more generally, test cases are named after the date on
915 which they were added. This allows people to tell at a glance whether
916 a test failure is because of a recently found bug that has not yet
917 been fixed, or whether it may be a regression, but does not give any
918 other information about the bug or where discussion of it may be
919 found. Some other language testsuites follow similar conventions.
920
921 In the @file{gcc.dg} testsuite, it is often necessary to test that an
922 error is indeed a hard error and not just a warning---for example,
923 where it is a constraint violation in the C standard, which must
924 become an error with @option{-pedantic-errors}. The following idiom,
925 where the first line shown is line @var{line} of the file and the line
926 that generates the error, is used for this:
927
928 @smallexample
929 /* @{ dg-bogus "warning" "warning in place of error" @} */
930 /* @{ dg-error "@var{regexp}" "@var{message}" @{ target *-*-* @} @var{line} @} */
931 @end smallexample
932
933 It may be necessary to check that an expression is an integer constant
934 expression and has a certain value. To check that @code{@var{E}} has
935 value @code{@var{V}}, an idiom similar to the following is used:
936
937 @smallexample
938 char x[((E) == (V) ? 1 : -1)];
939 @end smallexample
940
941 In @file{gcc.dg} tests, @code{__typeof__} is sometimes used to make
942 assertions about the types of expressions. See, for example,
943 @file{gcc.dg/c99-condexpr-1.c}. The more subtle uses depend on the
944 exact rules for the types of conditional expressions in the C
945 standard; see, for example, @file{gcc.dg/c99-intconst-1.c}.
946
947 It is useful to be able to test that optimizations are being made
948 properly. This cannot be done in all cases, but it can be done where
949 the optimization will lead to code being optimized away (for example,
950 where flow analysis or alias analysis should show that certain code
951 cannot be called) or to functions not being called because they have
952 been expanded as built-in functions. Such tests go in
953 @file{gcc.c-torture/execute}. Where code should be optimized away, a
954 call to a nonexistent function such as @code{link_failure ()} may be
955 inserted; a definition
956
957 @smallexample
958 #ifndef __OPTIMIZE__
959 void
960 link_failure (void)
961 @{
962 abort ();
963 @}
964 #endif
965 @end smallexample
966
967 @noindent
968 will also be needed so that linking still succeeds when the test is
969 run without optimization. When all calls to a built-in function
970 should have been optimized and no calls to the non-built-in version of
971 the function should remain, that function may be defined as
972 @code{static} to call @code{abort ()} (although redeclaring a function
973 as static may not work on all targets).
974
975 All testcases must be portable. Target-specific testcases must have
976 appropriate code to avoid causing failures on unsupported systems;
977 unfortunately, the mechanisms for this differ by directory.
978
979 FIXME: discuss non-C testsuites here.
980
981 @node Test Directives
982 @section Directives used within DejaGnu tests
983
984 @menu
985 * Directives:: Syntax and descriptions of test directives.
986 * Selectors:: Selecting targets to which a test applies.
987 * Effective-Target Keywords:: Keywords describing target attributes.
988 * Add Options:: Features for @code{dg-add-options}
989 * Require Support:: Variants of @code{dg-require-@var{support}}
990 * Final Actions:: Commands for use in @code{dg-final}
991 @end menu
992
993 @node Directives
994 @subsection Syntax and Descriptions of test directives
995
996 Test directives appear within comments in a test source file and begin
997 with @code{dg-}. Some of these are defined within DejaGnu and others
998 are local to the GCC testsuite.
999
1000 The order in which test directives appear in a test can be important:
1001 directives local to GCC sometimes override information used by the
1002 DejaGnu directives, which know nothing about the GCC directives, so the
1003 DejaGnu directives must precede GCC directives.
1004
1005 Several test directives include selectors (@pxref{Selectors, , })
1006 which are usually preceded by the keyword @code{target} or @code{xfail}.
1007
1008 @subsubsection Specify how to build the test
1009
1010 @table @code
1011 @item @{ dg-do @var{do-what-keyword} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}] @}
1012 @var{do-what-keyword} specifies how the test is compiled and whether
1013 it is executed. It is one of:
1014
1015 @table @code
1016 @item preprocess
1017 Compile with @option{-E} to run only the preprocessor.
1018 @item compile
1019 Compile with @option{-S} to produce an assembly code file.
1020 @item assemble
1021 Compile with @option{-c} to produce a relocatable object file.
1022 @item link
1023 Compile, assemble, and link to produce an executable file.
1024 @item run
1025 Produce and run an executable file, which is expected to return
1026 an exit code of 0.
1027 @end table
1028
1029 The default is @code{compile}. That can be overridden for a set of
1030 tests by redefining @code{dg-do-what-default} within the @code{.exp}
1031 file for those tests.
1032
1033 If the directive includes the optional @samp{@{ target @var{selector} @}}
1034 then the test is skipped unless the target system matches the
1035 @var{selector}.
1036
1037 If @var{do-what-keyword} is @code{run} and the directive includes
1038 the optional @samp{@{ xfail @var{selector} @}} and the selector is met
1039 then the test is expected to fail. The @code{xfail} clause is ignored
1040 for other values of @var{do-what-keyword}; those tests can use
1041 directive @code{dg-xfail-if}.
1042 @end table
1043
1044 @subsubsection Specify additional compiler options
1045
1046 @table @code
1047 @item @{ dg-options @var{options} [@{ target @var{selector} @}] @}
1048 This DejaGnu directive provides a list of compiler options, to be used
1049 if the target system matches @var{selector}, that replace the default
1050 options used for this set of tests.
1051
1052 @item @{ dg-add-options @var{feature} @dots{} @}
1053 Add any compiler options that are needed to access certain features.
1054 This directive does nothing on targets that enable the features by
1055 default, or that don't provide them at all. It must come after
1056 all @code{dg-options} directives.
1057 For supported values of @var{feature} see @ref{Add Options, ,}.
1058
1059 @item @{ dg-additional-options @var{options} [@{ target @var{selector} @}] @}
1060 This directive provides a list of compiler options, to be used
1061 if the target system matches @var{selector}, that are added to the default
1062 options used for this set of tests.
1063 @end table
1064
1065 @subsubsection Modify the test timeout value
1066
1067 The normal timeout limit, in seconds, is found by searching the
1068 following in order:
1069
1070 @itemize @bullet
1071 @item the value defined by an earlier @code{dg-timeout} directive in
1072 the test
1073
1074 @item variable @var{tool_timeout} defined by the set of tests
1075
1076 @item @var{gcc},@var{timeout} set in the target board
1077
1078 @item 300
1079 @end itemize
1080
1081 @table @code
1082 @item @{ dg-timeout @var{n} [@{target @var{selector} @}] @}
1083 Set the time limit for the compilation and for the execution of the test
1084 to the specified number of seconds.
1085
1086 @item @{ dg-timeout-factor @var{x} [@{ target @var{selector} @}] @}
1087 Multiply the normal time limit for compilation and execution of the test
1088 by the specified floating-point factor.
1089 @end table
1090
1091 @subsubsection Skip a test for some targets
1092
1093 @table @code
1094 @item @{ dg-skip-if @var{comment} @{ @var{selector} @} [@{ @var{include-opts} @} [@{ @var{exclude-opts} @}]] @}
1095 Arguments @var{include-opts} and @var{exclude-opts} are lists in which
1096 each element is a string of zero or more GCC options.
1097 Skip the test if all of the following conditions are met:
1098 @itemize @bullet
1099 @item the test system is included in @var{selector}
1100
1101 @item for at least one of the option strings in @var{include-opts},
1102 every option from that string is in the set of options with which
1103 the test would be compiled; use @samp{"*"} for an @var{include-opts} list
1104 that matches any options; that is the default if @var{include-opts} is
1105 not specified
1106
1107 @item for each of the option strings in @var{exclude-opts}, at least one
1108 option from that string is not in the set of options with which the test
1109 would be compiled; use @samp{""} for an empty @var{exclude-opts} list;
1110 that is the default if @var{exclude-opts} is not specified
1111 @end itemize
1112
1113 For example, to skip a test if option @code{-Os} is present:
1114
1115 @smallexample
1116 /* @{ dg-skip-if "" @{ *-*-* @} @{ "-Os" @} @{ "" @} @} */
1117 @end smallexample
1118
1119 To skip a test if both options @code{-O2} and @code{-g} are present:
1120
1121 @smallexample
1122 /* @{ dg-skip-if "" @{ *-*-* @} @{ "-O2 -g" @} @{ "" @} @} */
1123 @end smallexample
1124
1125 To skip a test if either @code{-O2} or @code{-O3} is present:
1126
1127 @smallexample
1128 /* @{ dg-skip-if "" @{ *-*-* @} @{ "-O2" "-O3" @} @{ "" @} @} */
1129 @end smallexample
1130
1131 To skip a test unless option @code{-Os} is present:
1132
1133 @smallexample
1134 /* @{ dg-skip-if "" @{ *-*-* @} @{ "*" @} @{ "-Os" @} @} */
1135 @end smallexample
1136
1137 To skip a test if either @code{-O2} or @code{-O3} is used with @code{-g}
1138 but not if @code{-fpic} is also present:
1139
1140 @smallexample
1141 /* @{ dg-skip-if "" @{ *-*-* @} @{ "-O2 -g" "-O3 -g" @} @{ "-fpic" @} @} */
1142 @end smallexample
1143
1144 @item @{ dg-require-effective-target @var{keyword} [@{ target @var{selector} @}] @}
1145 Skip the test if the test target, including current multilib flags,
1146 is not covered by the effective-target keyword.
1147 If the directive includes the optional @samp{@{ @var{selector} @}}
1148 then the effective-target test is only performed if the target system
1149 matches the @var{selector}.
1150 This directive must appear after any @code{dg-do} directive in the test
1151 and before any @code{dg-additional-sources} directive.
1152 @xref{Effective-Target Keywords, , }.
1153
1154 @item @{ dg-require-@var{support} args @}
1155 Skip the test if the target does not provide the required support.
1156 These directives must appear after any @code{dg-do} directive in the test
1157 and before any @code{dg-additional-sources} directive.
1158 They require at least one argument, which can be an empty string if the
1159 specific procedure does not examine the argument.
1160 @xref{Require Support, , }, for a complete list of these directives.
1161 @end table
1162
1163 @subsubsection Expect a test to fail for some targets
1164
1165 @table @code
1166 @item @{ dg-xfail-if @var{comment} @{ @var{selector} @} [@{ @var{include-opts} @} [@{ @var{exclude-opts} @}]] @}
1167 Expect the test to fail if the conditions (which are the same as for
1168 @code{dg-skip-if}) are met. This does not affect the execute step.
1169
1170 @item @{ dg-xfail-run-if @var{comment} @{ @var{selector} @} [@{ @var{include-opts} @} [@{ @var{exclude-opts} @}]] @}
1171 Expect the execute step of a test to fail if the conditions (which are
1172 the same as for @code{dg-skip-if}) are met.
1173 @end table
1174
1175 @subsubsection Expect the compiler to crash
1176
1177 @table @code
1178 @item @{ dg-ice @var{comment} [@{ @var{selector} @} [@{ @var{include-opts} @} [@{ @var{exclude-opts} @}]]] @}
1179 Expect the compiler to crash with an internal compiler error and return
1180 a nonzero exit status if the conditions (which are the same as for
1181 @code{dg-skip-if}) are met. Used for tests that test bugs that have not been
1182 fixed yet.
1183 @end table
1184
1185 @subsubsection Expect the test executable to fail
1186
1187 @table @code
1188 @item @{ dg-shouldfail @var{comment} [@{ @var{selector} @} [@{ @var{include-opts} @} [@{ @var{exclude-opts} @}]]] @}
1189 Expect the test executable to return a nonzero exit status if the
1190 conditions (which are the same as for @code{dg-skip-if}) are met.
1191 @end table
1192
1193 @subsubsection Verify compiler messages
1194 Where @var{line} is an accepted argument for these commands, a value of @samp{0}
1195 can be used if there is no line associated with the message.
1196
1197 @table @code
1198 @item @{ dg-error @var{regexp} [@var{comment} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @} [@var{line}] ]] @}
1199 This DejaGnu directive appears on a source line that is expected to get
1200 an error message, or else specifies the source line associated with the
1201 message. If there is no message for that line or if the text of that
1202 message is not matched by @var{regexp} then the check fails and
1203 @var{comment} is included in the @code{FAIL} message. The check does
1204 not look for the string @samp{error} unless it is part of @var{regexp}.
1205
1206 @item @{ dg-warning @var{regexp} [@var{comment} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @} [@var{line}] ]] @}
1207 This DejaGnu directive appears on a source line that is expected to get
1208 a warning message, or else specifies the source line associated with the
1209 message. If there is no message for that line or if the text of that
1210 message is not matched by @var{regexp} then the check fails and
1211 @var{comment} is included in the @code{FAIL} message. The check does
1212 not look for the string @samp{warning} unless it is part of @var{regexp}.
1213
1214 @item @{ dg-message @var{regexp} [@var{comment} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @} [@var{line}] ]] @}
1215 The line is expected to get a message other than an error or warning.
1216 If there is no message for that line or if the text of that message is
1217 not matched by @var{regexp} then the check fails and @var{comment} is
1218 included in the @code{FAIL} message.
1219
1220 @item @{ dg-bogus @var{regexp} [@var{comment} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @} [@var{line}] ]] @}
1221 This DejaGnu directive appears on a source line that should not get a
1222 message matching @var{regexp}, or else specifies the source line
1223 associated with the bogus message. It is usually used with @samp{xfail}
1224 to indicate that the message is a known problem for a particular set of
1225 targets.
1226
1227 @item @{ dg-line @var{linenumvar} @}
1228 This DejaGnu directive sets the variable @var{linenumvar} to the line number of
1229 the source line. The variable @var{linenumvar} can then be used in subsequent
1230 @code{dg-error}, @code{dg-warning}, @code{dg-message} and @code{dg-bogus}
1231 directives. For example:
1232
1233 @smallexample
1234 int a; /* @{ dg-line first_def_a @} */
1235 float a; /* @{ dg-error "conflicting types of" @} */
1236 /* @{ dg-message "previous declaration of" "" @{ target *-*-* @} first_def_a @} */
1237 @end smallexample
1238
1239 @item @{ dg-excess-errors @var{comment} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}] @}
1240 This DejaGnu directive indicates that the test is expected to fail due
1241 to compiler messages that are not handled by @samp{dg-error},
1242 @samp{dg-warning} or @samp{dg-bogus}. For this directive @samp{xfail}
1243 has the same effect as @samp{target}.
1244
1245 @item @{ dg-prune-output @var{regexp} @}
1246 Prune messages matching @var{regexp} from the test output.
1247 @end table
1248
1249 @subsubsection Verify output of the test executable
1250
1251 @table @code
1252 @item @{ dg-output @var{regexp} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}] @}
1253 This DejaGnu directive compares @var{regexp} to the combined output
1254 that the test executable writes to @file{stdout} and @file{stderr}.
1255 @end table
1256
1257 @subsubsection Specify environment variables for a test
1258
1259 @table @code
1260 @item @{ dg-set-compiler-env-var @var{var_name} "@var{var_value}" @}
1261 Specify that the environment variable @var{var_name} needs to be set
1262 to @var{var_value} before invoking the compiler on the test file.
1263
1264 @item @{ dg-set-target-env-var @var{var_name} "@var{var_value}" @}
1265 Specify that the environment variable @var{var_name} needs to be set
1266 to @var{var_value} before execution of the program created by the test.
1267 @end table
1268
1269 @subsubsection Specify additional files for a test
1270
1271 @table @code
1272 @item @{ dg-additional-files "@var{filelist}" @}
1273 Specify additional files, other than source files, that must be copied
1274 to the system where the compiler runs.
1275
1276 @item @{ dg-additional-sources "@var{filelist}" @}
1277 Specify additional source files to appear in the compile line
1278 following the main test file.
1279 @end table
1280
1281 @subsubsection Add checks at the end of a test
1282
1283 @table @code
1284 @item @{ dg-final @{ @var{local-directive} @} @}
1285 This DejaGnu directive is placed within a comment anywhere in the
1286 source file and is processed after the test has been compiled and run.
1287 Multiple @samp{dg-final} commands are processed in the order in which
1288 they appear in the source file. @xref{Final Actions, , }, for a list
1289 of directives that can be used within @code{dg-final}.
1290 @end table
1291
1292 @node Selectors
1293 @subsection Selecting targets to which a test applies
1294
1295 Several test directives include @var{selector}s to limit the targets
1296 for which a test is run or to declare that a test is expected to fail
1297 on particular targets.
1298
1299 A selector is:
1300 @itemize @bullet
1301 @item one or more target triplets, possibly including wildcard characters;
1302 use @samp{*-*-*} to match any target
1303 @item a single effective-target keyword (@pxref{Effective-Target Keywords})
1304 @item a logical expression
1305 @end itemize
1306
1307 Depending on the context, the selector specifies whether a test is
1308 skipped and reported as unsupported or is expected to fail. A context
1309 that allows either @samp{target} or @samp{xfail} also allows
1310 @samp{@{ target @var{selector1} xfail @var{selector2} @}}
1311 to skip the test for targets that don't match @var{selector1} and the
1312 test to fail for targets that match @var{selector2}.
1313
1314 A selector expression appears within curly braces and uses a single
1315 logical operator: one of @samp{!}, @samp{&&}, or @samp{||}. An
1316 operand is another selector expression, an effective-target keyword,
1317 a single target triplet, or a list of target triplets within quotes or
1318 curly braces. For example:
1319
1320 @smallexample
1321 @{ target @{ ! "hppa*-*-* ia64*-*-*" @} @}
1322 @{ target @{ powerpc*-*-* && lp64 @} @}
1323 @{ xfail @{ lp64 || vect_no_align @} @}
1324 @end smallexample
1325
1326 @node Effective-Target Keywords
1327 @subsection Keywords describing target attributes
1328
1329 Effective-target keywords identify sets of targets that support
1330 particular functionality. They are used to limit tests to be run only
1331 for particular targets, or to specify that particular sets of targets
1332 are expected to fail some tests.
1333
1334 Effective-target keywords are defined in @file{lib/target-supports.exp} in
1335 the GCC testsuite, with the exception of those that are documented as
1336 being local to a particular test directory.
1337
1338 The @samp{effective target} takes into account all of the compiler options
1339 with which the test will be compiled, including the multilib options.
1340 By convention, keywords ending in @code{_nocache} can also include options
1341 specified for the particular test in an earlier @code{dg-options} or
1342 @code{dg-add-options} directive.
1343
1344 @subsubsection Endianness
1345
1346 @table @code
1347 @item be
1348 Target uses big-endian memory order for multi-byte and multi-word data.
1349
1350 @item le
1351 Target uses little-endian memory order for multi-byte and multi-word data.
1352 @end table
1353
1354 @subsubsection Data type sizes
1355
1356 @table @code
1357 @item ilp32
1358 Target has 32-bit @code{int}, @code{long}, and pointers.
1359
1360 @item lp64
1361 Target has 32-bit @code{int}, 64-bit @code{long} and pointers.
1362
1363 @item llp64
1364 Target has 32-bit @code{int} and @code{long}, 64-bit @code{long long}
1365 and pointers.
1366
1367 @item double64
1368 Target has 64-bit @code{double}.
1369
1370 @item double64plus
1371 Target has @code{double} that is 64 bits or longer.
1372
1373 @item longdouble128
1374 Target has 128-bit @code{long double}.
1375
1376 @item int32plus
1377 Target has @code{int} that is at 32 bits or longer.
1378
1379 @item int16
1380 Target has @code{int} that is 16 bits or shorter.
1381
1382 @item longlong64
1383 Target has 64-bit @code{long long}.
1384
1385 @item long_neq_int
1386 Target has @code{int} and @code{long} with different sizes.
1387
1388 @item short_eq_int
1389 Target has @code{short} and @code{int} with the same size.
1390
1391 @item ptr_eq_short
1392 Target has pointers (@code{void *}) and @code{short} with the same size.
1393
1394 @item int_eq_float
1395 Target has @code{int} and @code{float} with the same size.
1396
1397 @item ptr_eq_long
1398 Target has pointers (@code{void *}) and @code{long} with the same size.
1399
1400 @item large_double
1401 Target supports @code{double} that is longer than @code{float}.
1402
1403 @item large_long_double
1404 Target supports @code{long double} that is longer than @code{double}.
1405
1406 @item ptr32plus
1407 Target has pointers that are 32 bits or longer.
1408
1409 @item size20plus
1410 Target has a 20-bit or larger address space, so supports at least
1411 16-bit array and structure sizes.
1412
1413 @item size24plus
1414 Target has a 24-bit or larger address space, so supports at least
1415 20-bit array and structure sizes.
1416
1417 @item size32plus
1418 Target has a 32-bit or larger address space, so supports at least
1419 24-bit array and structure sizes.
1420
1421 @item 4byte_wchar_t
1422 Target has @code{wchar_t} that is at least 4 bytes.
1423
1424 @item float@var{n}
1425 Target has the @code{_Float@var{n}} type.
1426
1427 @item float@var{n}x
1428 Target has the @code{_Float@var{n}x} type.
1429
1430 @item float@var{n}_runtime
1431 Target has the @code{_Float@var{n}} type, including runtime support
1432 for any options added with @code{dg-add-options}.
1433
1434 @item float@var{n}x_runtime
1435 Target has the @code{_Float@var{n}x} type, including runtime support
1436 for any options added with @code{dg-add-options}.
1437
1438 @item floatn_nx_runtime
1439 Target has runtime support for any options added with
1440 @code{dg-add-options} for any @code{_Float@var{n}} or
1441 @code{_Float@var{n}x} type.
1442
1443 @item inf
1444 Target supports floating point infinite (@code{inf}) for type
1445 @code{double}.
1446
1447 @item inff
1448 Target supports floating point infinite (@code{inf}) for type
1449 @code{float}.
1450 @end table
1451 @subsubsection Fortran-specific attributes
1452
1453 @table @code
1454 @item fortran_integer_16
1455 Target supports Fortran @code{integer} that is 16 bytes or longer.
1456
1457 @item fortran_real_10
1458 Target supports Fortran @code{real} that is 10 bytes or longer.
1459
1460 @item fortran_real_16
1461 Target supports Fortran @code{real} that is 16 bytes or longer.
1462
1463 @item fortran_large_int
1464 Target supports Fortran @code{integer} kinds larger than @code{integer(8)}.
1465
1466 @item fortran_large_real
1467 Target supports Fortran @code{real} kinds larger than @code{real(8)}.
1468 @end table
1469
1470 @subsubsection Vector-specific attributes
1471
1472 @table @code
1473 @item vect_align_stack_vars
1474 The target's ABI allows stack variables to be aligned to the preferred
1475 vector alignment.
1476
1477 @item vect_avg_qi
1478 Target supports both signed and unsigned averaging operations on vectors
1479 of bytes.
1480
1481 @item vect_mulhrs_hi
1482 Target supports both signed and unsigned multiply-high-with-round-and-scale
1483 operations on vectors of half-words.
1484
1485 @item vect_sdiv_pow2_si
1486 Target supports signed division by constant power-of-2 operations
1487 on vectors of 4-byte integers.
1488
1489 @item vect_condition
1490 Target supports vector conditional operations.
1491
1492 @item vect_cond_mixed
1493 Target supports vector conditional operations where comparison operands
1494 have different type from the value operands.
1495
1496 @item vect_double
1497 Target supports hardware vectors of @code{double}.
1498
1499 @item vect_double_cond_arith
1500 Target supports conditional addition, subtraction, multiplication,
1501 division, minimum and maximum on vectors of @code{double}, via the
1502 @code{cond_} optabs.
1503
1504 @item vect_element_align_preferred
1505 The target's preferred vector alignment is the same as the element
1506 alignment.
1507
1508 @item vect_float
1509 Target supports hardware vectors of @code{float} when
1510 @option{-funsafe-math-optimizations} is in effect.
1511
1512 @item vect_float_strict
1513 Target supports hardware vectors of @code{float} when
1514 @option{-funsafe-math-optimizations} is not in effect.
1515 This implies @code{vect_float}.
1516
1517 @item vect_int
1518 Target supports hardware vectors of @code{int}.
1519
1520 @item vect_long
1521 Target supports hardware vectors of @code{long}.
1522
1523 @item vect_long_long
1524 Target supports hardware vectors of @code{long long}.
1525
1526 @item vect_check_ptrs
1527 Target supports the @code{check_raw_ptrs} and @code{check_war_ptrs}
1528 optabs on vectors.
1529
1530 @item vect_fully_masked
1531 Target supports fully-masked (also known as fully-predicated) loops,
1532 so that vector loops can handle partial as well as full vectors.
1533
1534 @item vect_masked_load
1535 Target supports vector masked loads.
1536
1537 @item vect_masked_store
1538 Target supports vector masked stores.
1539
1540 @item vect_scatter_store
1541 Target supports vector scatter stores.
1542
1543 @item vect_aligned_arrays
1544 Target aligns arrays to vector alignment boundary.
1545
1546 @item vect_hw_misalign
1547 Target supports a vector misalign access.
1548
1549 @item vect_no_align
1550 Target does not support a vector alignment mechanism.
1551
1552 @item vect_peeling_profitable
1553 Target might require to peel loops for alignment purposes.
1554
1555 @item vect_no_int_min_max
1556 Target does not support a vector min and max instruction on @code{int}.
1557
1558 @item vect_no_int_add
1559 Target does not support a vector add instruction on @code{int}.
1560
1561 @item vect_no_bitwise
1562 Target does not support vector bitwise instructions.
1563
1564 @item vect_bool_cmp
1565 Target supports comparison of @code{bool} vectors for at least one
1566 vector length.
1567
1568 @item vect_char_add
1569 Target supports addition of @code{char} vectors for at least one
1570 vector length.
1571
1572 @item vect_char_mult
1573 Target supports @code{vector char} multiplication.
1574
1575 @item vect_short_mult
1576 Target supports @code{vector short} multiplication.
1577
1578 @item vect_int_mult
1579 Target supports @code{vector int} multiplication.
1580
1581 @item vect_long_mult
1582 Target supports 64 bit @code{vector long} multiplication.
1583
1584 @item vect_extract_even_odd
1585 Target supports vector even/odd element extraction.
1586
1587 @item vect_extract_even_odd_wide
1588 Target supports vector even/odd element extraction of vectors with elements
1589 @code{SImode} or larger.
1590
1591 @item vect_interleave
1592 Target supports vector interleaving.
1593
1594 @item vect_strided
1595 Target supports vector interleaving and extract even/odd.
1596
1597 @item vect_strided_wide
1598 Target supports vector interleaving and extract even/odd for wide
1599 element types.
1600
1601 @item vect_perm
1602 Target supports vector permutation.
1603
1604 @item vect_perm_byte
1605 Target supports permutation of vectors with 8-bit elements.
1606
1607 @item vect_perm_short
1608 Target supports permutation of vectors with 16-bit elements.
1609
1610 @item vect_perm3_byte
1611 Target supports permutation of vectors with 8-bit elements, and for the
1612 default vector length it is possible to permute:
1613 @example
1614 @{ a0, a1, a2, b0, b1, b2, @dots{} @}
1615 @end example
1616 to:
1617 @example
1618 @{ a0, a0, a0, b0, b0, b0, @dots{} @}
1619 @{ a1, a1, a1, b1, b1, b1, @dots{} @}
1620 @{ a2, a2, a2, b2, b2, b2, @dots{} @}
1621 @end example
1622 using only two-vector permutes, regardless of how long the sequence is.
1623
1624 @item vect_perm3_int
1625 Like @code{vect_perm3_byte}, but for 32-bit elements.
1626
1627 @item vect_perm3_short
1628 Like @code{vect_perm3_byte}, but for 16-bit elements.
1629
1630 @item vect_shift
1631 Target supports a hardware vector shift operation.
1632
1633 @item vect_unaligned_possible
1634 Target prefers vectors to have an alignment greater than element
1635 alignment, but also allows unaligned vector accesses in some
1636 circumstances.
1637
1638 @item vect_variable_length
1639 Target has variable-length vectors.
1640
1641 @item vect_widen_sum_hi_to_si
1642 Target supports a vector widening summation of @code{short} operands
1643 into @code{int} results, or can promote (unpack) from @code{short}
1644 to @code{int}.
1645
1646 @item vect_widen_sum_qi_to_hi
1647 Target supports a vector widening summation of @code{char} operands
1648 into @code{short} results, or can promote (unpack) from @code{char}
1649 to @code{short}.
1650
1651 @item vect_widen_sum_qi_to_si
1652 Target supports a vector widening summation of @code{char} operands
1653 into @code{int} results.
1654
1655 @item vect_widen_mult_qi_to_hi
1656 Target supports a vector widening multiplication of @code{char} operands
1657 into @code{short} results, or can promote (unpack) from @code{char} to
1658 @code{short} and perform non-widening multiplication of @code{short}.
1659
1660 @item vect_widen_mult_hi_to_si
1661 Target supports a vector widening multiplication of @code{short} operands
1662 into @code{int} results, or can promote (unpack) from @code{short} to
1663 @code{int} and perform non-widening multiplication of @code{int}.
1664
1665 @item vect_widen_mult_si_to_di_pattern
1666 Target supports a vector widening multiplication of @code{int} operands
1667 into @code{long} results.
1668
1669 @item vect_sdot_qi
1670 Target supports a vector dot-product of @code{signed char}.
1671
1672 @item vect_udot_qi
1673 Target supports a vector dot-product of @code{unsigned char}.
1674
1675 @item vect_sdot_hi
1676 Target supports a vector dot-product of @code{signed short}.
1677
1678 @item vect_udot_hi
1679 Target supports a vector dot-product of @code{unsigned short}.
1680
1681 @item vect_pack_trunc
1682 Target supports a vector demotion (packing) of @code{short} to @code{char}
1683 and from @code{int} to @code{short} using modulo arithmetic.
1684
1685 @item vect_unpack
1686 Target supports a vector promotion (unpacking) of @code{char} to @code{short}
1687 and from @code{char} to @code{int}.
1688
1689 @item vect_intfloat_cvt
1690 Target supports conversion from @code{signed int} to @code{float}.
1691
1692 @item vect_uintfloat_cvt
1693 Target supports conversion from @code{unsigned int} to @code{float}.
1694
1695 @item vect_floatint_cvt
1696 Target supports conversion from @code{float} to @code{signed int}.
1697
1698 @item vect_floatuint_cvt
1699 Target supports conversion from @code{float} to @code{unsigned int}.
1700
1701 @item vect_intdouble_cvt
1702 Target supports conversion from @code{signed int} to @code{double}.
1703
1704 @item vect_doubleint_cvt
1705 Target supports conversion from @code{double} to @code{signed int}.
1706
1707 @item vect_max_reduc
1708 Target supports max reduction for vectors.
1709
1710 @item vect_sizes_16B_8B
1711 Target supports 16- and 8-bytes vectors.
1712
1713 @item vect_sizes_32B_16B
1714 Target supports 32- and 16-bytes vectors.
1715
1716 @item vect_logical_reduc
1717 Target supports AND, IOR and XOR reduction on vectors.
1718
1719 @item vect_fold_extract_last
1720 Target supports the @code{fold_extract_last} optab.
1721
1722 @item vect_len_load_store
1723 Target supports the @code{len_load} and @code{len_store} optabs.
1724
1725 @item vect_partial_vectors_usage_1
1726 Target supports loop vectorization with partial vectors and
1727 @code{vect-partial-vector-usage} is set to 1.
1728
1729 @item vect_partial_vectors_usage_2
1730 Target supports loop vectorization with partial vectors and
1731 @code{vect-partial-vector-usage} is set to 2.
1732
1733 @item vect_partial_vectors
1734 Target supports loop vectorization with partial vectors and
1735 @code{vect-partial-vector-usage} is nonzero.
1736 @end table
1737
1738 @subsubsection Thread Local Storage attributes
1739
1740 @table @code
1741 @item tls
1742 Target supports thread-local storage.
1743
1744 @item tls_native
1745 Target supports native (rather than emulated) thread-local storage.
1746
1747 @item tls_runtime
1748 Test system supports executing TLS executables.
1749 @end table
1750
1751 @subsubsection Decimal floating point attributes
1752
1753 @table @code
1754 @item dfp
1755 Targets supports compiling decimal floating point extension to C.
1756
1757 @item dfp_nocache
1758 Including the options used to compile this particular test, the
1759 target supports compiling decimal floating point extension to C.
1760
1761 @item dfprt
1762 Test system can execute decimal floating point tests.
1763
1764 @item dfprt_nocache
1765 Including the options used to compile this particular test, the
1766 test system can execute decimal floating point tests.
1767
1768 @item hard_dfp
1769 Target generates decimal floating point instructions with current options.
1770 @end table
1771
1772 @subsubsection ARM-specific attributes
1773
1774 @table @code
1775 @item arm32
1776 ARM target generates 32-bit code.
1777
1778 @item arm_little_endian
1779 ARM target that generates little-endian code.
1780
1781 @item arm_eabi
1782 ARM target adheres to the ABI for the ARM Architecture.
1783
1784 @item arm_fp_ok
1785 @anchor{arm_fp_ok}
1786 ARM target defines @code{__ARM_FP} using @code{-mfloat-abi=softfp} or
1787 equivalent options. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these
1788 options.
1789
1790 @item arm_fp_dp_ok
1791 @anchor{arm_fp_dp_ok}
1792 ARM target defines @code{__ARM_FP} with double-precision support using
1793 @code{-mfloat-abi=softfp} or equivalent options. Some multilibs may
1794 be incompatible with these options.
1795
1796 @item arm_hf_eabi
1797 ARM target adheres to the VFP and Advanced SIMD Register Arguments
1798 variant of the ABI for the ARM Architecture (as selected with
1799 @code{-mfloat-abi=hard}).
1800
1801 @item arm_softfloat
1802 ARM target uses emulated floating point operations.
1803
1804 @item arm_hard_vfp_ok
1805 ARM target supports @code{-mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=hard}.
1806 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1807
1808 @item arm_iwmmxt_ok
1809 ARM target supports @code{-mcpu=iwmmxt}.
1810 Some multilibs may be incompatible with this option.
1811
1812 @item arm_neon
1813 ARM target supports generating NEON instructions.
1814
1815 @item arm_tune_string_ops_prefer_neon
1816 Test CPU tune supports inlining string operations with NEON instructions.
1817
1818 @item arm_neon_hw
1819 Test system supports executing NEON instructions.
1820
1821 @item arm_neonv2_hw
1822 Test system supports executing NEON v2 instructions.
1823
1824 @item arm_neon_ok
1825 @anchor{arm_neon_ok}
1826 ARM Target supports @code{-mfpu=neon -mfloat-abi=softfp} or compatible
1827 options. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1828
1829 @item arm_neon_ok_no_float_abi
1830 @anchor{arm_neon_ok_no_float_abi}
1831 ARM Target supports NEON with @code{-mfpu=neon}, but without any
1832 -mfloat-abi= option. Some multilibs may be incompatible with this
1833 option.
1834
1835 @item arm_neonv2_ok
1836 @anchor{arm_neonv2_ok}
1837 ARM Target supports @code{-mfpu=neon-vfpv4 -mfloat-abi=softfp} or compatible
1838 options. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1839
1840 @item arm_fp16_ok
1841 @anchor{arm_fp16_ok}
1842 Target supports options to generate VFP half-precision floating-point
1843 instructions. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these
1844 options. This test is valid for ARM only.
1845
1846 @item arm_fp16_hw
1847 Target supports executing VFP half-precision floating-point
1848 instructions. This test is valid for ARM only.
1849
1850 @item arm_neon_fp16_ok
1851 @anchor{arm_neon_fp16_ok}
1852 ARM Target supports @code{-mfpu=neon-fp16 -mfloat-abi=softfp} or compatible
1853 options, including @code{-mfp16-format=ieee} if necessary to obtain the
1854 @code{__fp16} type. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1855
1856 @item arm_neon_fp16_hw
1857 Test system supports executing Neon half-precision float instructions.
1858 (Implies previous.)
1859
1860 @item arm_fp16_alternative_ok
1861 ARM target supports the ARM FP16 alternative format. Some multilibs
1862 may be incompatible with the options needed.
1863
1864 @item arm_fp16_none_ok
1865 ARM target supports specifying none as the ARM FP16 format.
1866
1867 @item arm_thumb1_ok
1868 ARM target generates Thumb-1 code for @code{-mthumb}.
1869
1870 @item arm_thumb2_ok
1871 ARM target generates Thumb-2 code for @code{-mthumb}.
1872
1873 @item arm_nothumb
1874 ARM target that is not using Thumb.
1875
1876 @item arm_vfp_ok
1877 ARM target supports @code{-mfpu=vfp -mfloat-abi=softfp}.
1878 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1879
1880 @item arm_vfp3_ok
1881 @anchor{arm_vfp3_ok}
1882 ARM target supports @code{-mfpu=vfp3 -mfloat-abi=softfp}.
1883 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1884
1885 @item arm_arch_v8a_hard_ok
1886 @anchor{arm_arch_v8a_hard_ok}
1887 The compiler is targeting @code{arm*-*-*} and can compile and assemble code
1888 using the options @code{-march=armv8-a -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard}.
1889 This is not enough to guarantee that linking works.
1890
1891 @item arm_arch_v8a_hard_multilib
1892 The compiler is targeting @code{arm*-*-*} and can build programs using
1893 the options @code{-march=armv8-a -mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=hard}.
1894 The target can also run the resulting binaries.
1895
1896 @item arm_v8_vfp_ok
1897 ARM target supports @code{-mfpu=fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=softfp}.
1898 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1899
1900 @item arm_v8_neon_ok
1901 ARM target supports @code{-mfpu=neon-fp-armv8 -mfloat-abi=softfp}.
1902 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1903
1904 @item arm_v8_1a_neon_ok
1905 @anchor{arm_v8_1a_neon_ok}
1906 ARM target supports options to generate ARMv8.1-A Adv.SIMD instructions.
1907 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1908
1909 @item arm_v8_1a_neon_hw
1910 ARM target supports executing ARMv8.1-A Adv.SIMD instructions. Some
1911 multilibs may be incompatible with the options needed. Implies
1912 arm_v8_1a_neon_ok.
1913
1914 @item arm_acq_rel
1915 ARM target supports acquire-release instructions.
1916
1917 @item arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok
1918 @anchor{arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok}
1919 ARM target supports options to generate instructions for ARMv8.2-A and
1920 scalar instructions from the FP16 extension. Some multilibs may be
1921 incompatible with these options.
1922
1923 @item arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_hw
1924 ARM target supports executing instructions for ARMv8.2-A and scalar
1925 instructions from the FP16 extension. Some multilibs may be
1926 incompatible with these options. Implies arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok.
1927
1928 @item arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok
1929 @anchor{arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok}
1930 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with
1931 the FP16 extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these
1932 options. Implies arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok.
1933
1934 @item arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_hw
1935 ARM target supports executing instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the FP16
1936 extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1937 Implies arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok and arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_hw.
1938
1939 @item arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_ok
1940 @anchor{arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_ok}
1941 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with
1942 the Dot Product extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these
1943 options.
1944
1945 @item arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_hw
1946 ARM target supports executing instructions from ARMv8.2-A with the Dot
1947 Product extension. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1948 Implies arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_ok.
1949
1950 @item arm_fp16fml_neon_ok
1951 @anchor{arm_fp16fml_neon_ok}
1952 ARM target supports extensions to generate the @code{VFMAL} and @code{VFMLS}
1953 half-precision floating-point instructions available from ARMv8.2-A and
1954 onwards. Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1955
1956 @item arm_v8_2a_bf16_neon_ok
1957 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with
1958 the BFloat16 extension (bf16). Some multilibs may be incompatible with these
1959 options.
1960
1961 @item arm_v8_2a_i8mm_ok
1962 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.2-A with
1963 the 8-Bit Integer Matrix Multiply extension (i8mm). Some multilibs may be
1964 incompatible with these options.
1965
1966 @item arm_v8_1m_mve_ok
1967 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.1-M with
1968 the M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE). Some multilibs may be incompatible
1969 with these options.
1970
1971 @item arm_v8_1m_mve_fp_ok
1972 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.1-M with
1973 the Half-precision floating-point instructions (HP), Floating-point Extension
1974 (FP) along with M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE). Some multilibs may be
1975 incompatible with these options.
1976
1977 @item arm_mve_hw
1978 Test system supports executing MVE instructions.
1979
1980 @item arm_v8m_main_cde
1981 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8-M with
1982 the Custom Datapath Extension (CDE). Some multilibs may be incompatible
1983 with these options.
1984
1985 @item arm_v8m_main_cde_fp
1986 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8-M with
1987 the Custom Datapath Extension (CDE) and floating-point (VFP).
1988 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1989
1990 @item arm_v8_1m_main_cde_mve
1991 ARM target supports options to generate instructions from ARMv8.1-M with
1992 the Custom Datapath Extension (CDE) and M-Profile Vector Extension (MVE).
1993 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
1994
1995 @item arm_prefer_ldrd_strd
1996 ARM target prefers @code{LDRD} and @code{STRD} instructions over
1997 @code{LDM} and @code{STM} instructions.
1998
1999 @item arm_thumb1_movt_ok
2000 ARM target generates Thumb-1 code for @code{-mthumb} with @code{MOVW}
2001 and @code{MOVT} instructions available.
2002
2003 @item arm_thumb1_cbz_ok
2004 ARM target generates Thumb-1 code for @code{-mthumb} with
2005 @code{CBZ} and @code{CBNZ} instructions available.
2006
2007 @item arm_divmod_simode
2008 ARM target for which divmod transform is disabled, if it supports hardware
2009 div instruction.
2010
2011 @item arm_cmse_ok
2012 ARM target supports ARMv8-M Security Extensions, enabled by the @code{-mcmse}
2013 option.
2014
2015 @item arm_coproc1_ok
2016 @anchor{arm_coproc1_ok}
2017 ARM target supports the following coprocessor instructions: @code{CDP},
2018 @code{LDC}, @code{STC}, @code{MCR} and @code{MRC}.
2019
2020 @item arm_coproc2_ok
2021 @anchor{arm_coproc2_ok}
2022 ARM target supports all the coprocessor instructions also listed as supported
2023 in @ref{arm_coproc1_ok} in addition to the following: @code{CDP2}, @code{LDC2},
2024 @code{LDC2l}, @code{STC2}, @code{STC2l}, @code{MCR2} and @code{MRC2}.
2025
2026 @item arm_coproc3_ok
2027 @anchor{arm_coproc3_ok}
2028 ARM target supports all the coprocessor instructions also listed as supported
2029 in @ref{arm_coproc2_ok} in addition the following: @code{MCRR} and @code{MRRC}.
2030
2031 @item arm_coproc4_ok
2032 ARM target supports all the coprocessor instructions also listed as supported
2033 in @ref{arm_coproc3_ok} in addition the following: @code{MCRR2} and @code{MRRC2}.
2034
2035 @item arm_simd32_ok
2036 @anchor{arm_simd32_ok}
2037 ARM Target supports options suitable for accessing the SIMD32 intrinsics from
2038 @code{arm_acle.h}.
2039 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
2040
2041 @item arm_qbit_ok
2042 @anchor{arm_qbit_ok}
2043 ARM Target supports options suitable for accessing the Q-bit manipulation
2044 intrinsics from @code{arm_acle.h}.
2045 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
2046
2047 @item arm_softfp_ok
2048 @anchor{arm_softfp_ok}
2049 ARM target supports the @code{-mfloat-abi=softfp} option.
2050
2051 @item arm_hard_ok
2052 @anchor{arm_hard_ok}
2053 ARM target supports the @code{-mfloat-abi=hard} option.
2054
2055 @item arm_v8_1_lob_ok
2056 @anchor{arm_v8_1_lob_ok}
2057 ARM Target supports executing the Armv8.1-M Mainline Low Overhead Loop
2058 instructions @code{DLS} and @code{LE}.
2059 Some multilibs may be incompatible with these options.
2060
2061 @item arm_thumb2_ok_no_arm_v8_1_lob
2062 ARM target generates Thumb-2 code for @code{-mthumb} but does not
2063 support executing the Armv8.1-M Mainline Low Overhead Loop
2064 instructions @code{DLS} and @code{LE}.
2065
2066 @end table
2067
2068 @subsubsection AArch64-specific attributes
2069
2070 @table @code
2071 @item aarch64_asm_<ext>_ok
2072 AArch64 assembler supports the architecture extension @code{ext} via the
2073 @code{.arch_extension} pseudo-op.
2074 @item aarch64_tiny
2075 AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for tiny memory model.
2076 @item aarch64_small
2077 AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for small memory model.
2078 @item aarch64_large
2079 AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for large memory model.
2080 @item aarch64_little_endian
2081 AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for little endian.
2082 @item aarch64_big_endian
2083 AArch64 target which generates instruction sequences for big endian.
2084 @item aarch64_small_fpic
2085 Binutils installed on test system supports relocation types required by -fpic
2086 for AArch64 small memory model.
2087 @item aarch64_sve_hw
2088 AArch64 target that is able to generate and execute SVE code (regardless of
2089 whether it does so by default).
2090 @item aarch64_sve128_hw
2091 @itemx aarch64_sve256_hw
2092 @itemx aarch64_sve512_hw
2093 @itemx aarch64_sve1024_hw
2094 @itemx aarch64_sve2048_hw
2095 Like @code{aarch64_sve_hw}, but also test for an exact hardware vector length.
2096
2097 @item aarch64_fjcvtzs_hw
2098 AArch64 target that is able to generate and execute armv8.3-a FJCVTZS
2099 instruction.
2100 @end table
2101
2102 @subsubsection MIPS-specific attributes
2103
2104 @table @code
2105 @item mips64
2106 MIPS target supports 64-bit instructions.
2107
2108 @item nomips16
2109 MIPS target does not produce MIPS16 code.
2110
2111 @item mips16_attribute
2112 MIPS target can generate MIPS16 code.
2113
2114 @item mips_loongson
2115 MIPS target is a Loongson-2E or -2F target using an ABI that supports
2116 the Loongson vector modes.
2117
2118 @item mips_msa
2119 MIPS target supports @code{-mmsa}, MIPS SIMD Architecture (MSA).
2120
2121 @item mips_newabi_large_long_double
2122 MIPS target supports @code{long double} larger than @code{double}
2123 when using the new ABI.
2124
2125 @item mpaired_single
2126 MIPS target supports @code{-mpaired-single}.
2127 @end table
2128
2129 @subsubsection MSP430-specific attributes
2130
2131 @table @code
2132 @item msp430_small
2133 MSP430 target has the small memory model enabled (@code{-msmall}).
2134
2135 @item msp430_large
2136 MSP430 target has the large memory model enabled (@code{-mlarge}).
2137 @end table
2138
2139 @subsubsection PowerPC-specific attributes
2140
2141 @table @code
2142
2143 @item dfp_hw
2144 PowerPC target supports executing hardware DFP instructions.
2145
2146 @item p8vector_hw
2147 PowerPC target supports executing VSX instructions (ISA 2.07).
2148
2149 @item powerpc64
2150 Test system supports executing 64-bit instructions.
2151
2152 @item powerpc_altivec
2153 PowerPC target supports AltiVec.
2154
2155 @item powerpc_altivec_ok
2156 PowerPC target supports @code{-maltivec}.
2157
2158 @item powerpc_eabi_ok
2159 PowerPC target supports @code{-meabi}.
2160
2161 @item powerpc_elfv2
2162 PowerPC target supports @code{-mabi=elfv2}.
2163
2164 @item powerpc_fprs
2165 PowerPC target supports floating-point registers.
2166
2167 @item powerpc_hard_double
2168 PowerPC target supports hardware double-precision floating-point.
2169
2170 @item powerpc_htm_ok
2171 PowerPC target supports @code{-mhtm}
2172
2173 @item powerpc_p8vector_ok
2174 PowerPC target supports @code{-mpower8-vector}
2175
2176 @item powerpc_popcntb_ok
2177 PowerPC target supports the @code{popcntb} instruction, indicating
2178 that this target supports @code{-mcpu=power5}.
2179
2180 @item powerpc_ppu_ok
2181 PowerPC target supports @code{-mcpu=cell}.
2182
2183 @item powerpc_spe
2184 PowerPC target supports PowerPC SPE.
2185
2186 @item powerpc_spe_nocache
2187 Including the options used to compile this particular test, the
2188 PowerPC target supports PowerPC SPE.
2189
2190 @item powerpc_spu
2191 PowerPC target supports PowerPC SPU.
2192
2193 @item powerpc_vsx_ok
2194 PowerPC target supports @code{-mvsx}.
2195
2196 @item powerpc_405_nocache
2197 Including the options used to compile this particular test, the
2198 PowerPC target supports PowerPC 405.
2199
2200 @item ppc_recip_hw
2201 PowerPC target supports executing reciprocal estimate instructions.
2202
2203 @item vmx_hw
2204 PowerPC target supports executing AltiVec instructions.
2205
2206 @item vsx_hw
2207 PowerPC target supports executing VSX instructions (ISA 2.06).
2208
2209 @item has_arch_pwr5
2210 PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR5 which means the @code{-mcpu}
2211 setting is Power5 or later.
2212
2213 @item has_arch_pwr6
2214 PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR6 which means the @code{-mcpu}
2215 setting is Power6 or later.
2216
2217 @item has_arch_pwr7
2218 PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR7 which means the @code{-mcpu}
2219 setting is Power7 or later.
2220
2221 @item has_arch_pwr8
2222 PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR8 which means the @code{-mcpu}
2223 setting is Power8 or later.
2224
2225 @item has_arch_pwr9
2226 PowerPC target pre-defines macro _ARCH_PWR9 which means the @code{-mcpu}
2227 setting is Power9 or later.
2228 @end table
2229
2230 @subsubsection Other hardware attributes
2231
2232 @c Please keep this table sorted alphabetically.
2233 @table @code
2234 @item autoincdec
2235 Target supports autoincrement/decrement addressing.
2236
2237 @item avx
2238 Target supports compiling @code{avx} instructions.
2239
2240 @item avx_runtime
2241 Target supports the execution of @code{avx} instructions.
2242
2243 @item avx2
2244 Target supports compiling @code{avx2} instructions.
2245
2246 @item avx2_runtime
2247 Target supports the execution of @code{avx2} instructions.
2248
2249 @item avxvnni
2250 Target supports the execution of @code{avxvnni} instructions.
2251
2252 @item avx512f
2253 Target supports compiling @code{avx512f} instructions.
2254
2255 @item avx512f_runtime
2256 Target supports the execution of @code{avx512f} instructions.
2257
2258 @item avx512vp2intersect
2259 Target supports the execution of @code{avx512vp2intersect} instructions.
2260
2261 @item amx_tile
2262 Target supports the execution of @code{amx-tile} instructions.
2263
2264 @item amx_int8
2265 Target supports the execution of @code{amx-int8} instructions.
2266
2267 @item amx_bf16
2268 Target supports the execution of @code{amx-bf16} instructions.
2269
2270 @item cell_hw
2271 Test system can execute AltiVec and Cell PPU instructions.
2272
2273 @item coldfire_fpu
2274 Target uses a ColdFire FPU.
2275
2276 @item divmod
2277 Target supporting hardware divmod insn or divmod libcall.
2278
2279 @item divmod_simode
2280 Target supporting hardware divmod insn or divmod libcall for SImode.
2281
2282 @item hard_float
2283 Target supports FPU instructions.
2284
2285 @item non_strict_align
2286 Target does not require strict alignment.
2287
2288 @item pie_copyreloc
2289 The x86-64 target linker supports PIE with copy reloc.
2290
2291 @item rdrand
2292 Target supports x86 @code{rdrand} instruction.
2293
2294 @item sqrt_insn
2295 Target has a square root instruction that the compiler can generate.
2296
2297 @item sse
2298 Target supports compiling @code{sse} instructions.
2299
2300 @item sse_runtime
2301 Target supports the execution of @code{sse} instructions.
2302
2303 @item sse2
2304 Target supports compiling @code{sse2} instructions.
2305
2306 @item sse2_runtime
2307 Target supports the execution of @code{sse2} instructions.
2308
2309 @item sync_char_short
2310 Target supports atomic operations on @code{char} and @code{short}.
2311
2312 @item sync_int_long
2313 Target supports atomic operations on @code{int} and @code{long}.
2314
2315 @item ultrasparc_hw
2316 Test environment appears to run executables on a simulator that
2317 accepts only @code{EM_SPARC} executables and chokes on @code{EM_SPARC32PLUS}
2318 or @code{EM_SPARCV9} executables.
2319
2320 @item vect_cmdline_needed
2321 Target requires a command line argument to enable a SIMD instruction set.
2322
2323 @item xorsign
2324 Target supports the xorsign optab expansion.
2325
2326 @end table
2327
2328 @subsubsection Environment attributes
2329
2330 @table @code
2331 @item c
2332 The language for the compiler under test is C.
2333
2334 @item c++
2335 The language for the compiler under test is C++.
2336
2337 @item c99_runtime
2338 Target provides a full C99 runtime.
2339
2340 @item correct_iso_cpp_string_wchar_protos
2341 Target @code{string.h} and @code{wchar.h} headers provide C++ required
2342 overloads for @code{strchr} etc. functions.
2343
2344 @item d_runtime
2345 Target provides the D runtime.
2346
2347 @item d_runtime_has_std_library
2348 Target provides the D standard library (Phobos).
2349
2350 @item dummy_wcsftime
2351 Target uses a dummy @code{wcsftime} function that always returns zero.
2352
2353 @item fd_truncate
2354 Target can truncate a file from a file descriptor, as used by
2355 @file{libgfortran/io/unix.c:fd_truncate}; i.e.@: @code{ftruncate} or
2356 @code{chsize}.
2357
2358 @item fenv
2359 Target provides @file{fenv.h} include file.
2360
2361 @item fenv_exceptions
2362 Target supports @file{fenv.h} with all the standard IEEE exceptions
2363 and floating-point exceptions are raised by arithmetic operations.
2364
2365 @item fenv_exceptions_dfp
2366 Target supports @file{fenv.h} with all the standard IEEE exceptions
2367 and floating-point exceptions are raised by arithmetic operations for
2368 decimal floating point.
2369
2370 @item fileio
2371 Target offers such file I/O library functions as @code{fopen},
2372 @code{fclose}, @code{tmpnam}, and @code{remove}. This is a link-time
2373 requirement for the presence of the functions in the library; even if
2374 they fail at runtime, the requirement is still regarded as satisfied.
2375
2376 @item freestanding
2377 Target is @samp{freestanding} as defined in section 4 of the C99 standard.
2378 Effectively, it is a target which supports no extra headers or libraries
2379 other than what is considered essential.
2380
2381 @item gettimeofday
2382 Target supports @code{gettimeofday}.
2383
2384 @item init_priority
2385 Target supports constructors with initialization priority arguments.
2386
2387 @item inttypes_types
2388 Target has the basic signed and unsigned types in @code{inttypes.h}.
2389 This is for tests that GCC's notions of these types agree with those
2390 in the header, as some systems have only @code{inttypes.h}.
2391
2392 @item lax_strtofp
2393 Target might have errors of a few ULP in string to floating-point
2394 conversion functions and overflow is not always detected correctly by
2395 those functions.
2396
2397 @item mempcpy
2398 Target provides @code{mempcpy} function.
2399
2400 @item mmap
2401 Target supports @code{mmap}.
2402
2403 @item newlib
2404 Target supports Newlib.
2405
2406 @item newlib_nano_io
2407 GCC was configured with @code{--enable-newlib-nano-formatted-io}, which reduces
2408 the code size of Newlib formatted I/O functions.
2409
2410 @item pow10
2411 Target provides @code{pow10} function.
2412
2413 @item pthread
2414 Target can compile using @code{pthread.h} with no errors or warnings.
2415
2416 @item pthread_h
2417 Target has @code{pthread.h}.
2418
2419 @item run_expensive_tests
2420 Expensive testcases (usually those that consume excessive amounts of CPU
2421 time) should be run on this target. This can be enabled by setting the
2422 @env{GCC_TEST_RUN_EXPENSIVE} environment variable to a non-empty string.
2423
2424 @item simulator
2425 Test system runs executables on a simulator (i.e.@: slowly) rather than
2426 hardware (i.e.@: fast).
2427
2428 @item signal
2429 Target has @code{signal.h}.
2430
2431 @item stabs
2432 Target supports the stabs debugging format.
2433
2434 @item stdint_types
2435 Target has the basic signed and unsigned C types in @code{stdint.h}.
2436 This will be obsolete when GCC ensures a working @code{stdint.h} for
2437 all targets.
2438
2439 @item stpcpy
2440 Target provides @code{stpcpy} function.
2441
2442 @item trampolines
2443 Target supports trampolines.
2444
2445 @item uclibc
2446 Target supports uClibc.
2447
2448 @item unwrapped
2449 Target does not use a status wrapper.
2450
2451 @item vxworks_kernel
2452 Target is a VxWorks kernel.
2453
2454 @item vxworks_rtp
2455 Target is a VxWorks RTP.
2456
2457 @item wchar
2458 Target supports wide characters.
2459 @end table
2460
2461 @subsubsection Other attributes
2462
2463 @table @code
2464 @item R_flag_in_section
2465 Target supports the 'R' flag in .section directive in assembly inputs.
2466
2467 @item automatic_stack_alignment
2468 Target supports automatic stack alignment.
2469
2470 @item branch_cost
2471 Target supports @option{-branch-cost=N}.
2472
2473 @item cxa_atexit
2474 Target uses @code{__cxa_atexit}.
2475
2476 @item default_packed
2477 Target has packed layout of structure members by default.
2478
2479 @item exceptions
2480 Target supports exceptions.
2481
2482 @item exceptions_enabled
2483 Target supports exceptions and they are enabled in the current
2484 testing configuration.
2485
2486 @item fgraphite
2487 Target supports Graphite optimizations.
2488
2489 @item fixed_point
2490 Target supports fixed-point extension to C.
2491
2492 @item fopenacc
2493 Target supports OpenACC via @option{-fopenacc}.
2494
2495 @item fopenmp
2496 Target supports OpenMP via @option{-fopenmp}.
2497
2498 @item fpic
2499 Target supports @option{-fpic} and @option{-fPIC}.
2500
2501 @item freorder
2502 Target supports @option{-freorder-blocks-and-partition}.
2503
2504 @item fstack_protector
2505 Target supports @option{-fstack-protector}.
2506
2507 @item gas
2508 Target uses GNU @command{as}.
2509
2510 @item gc_sections
2511 Target supports @option{--gc-sections}.
2512
2513 @item gld
2514 Target uses GNU @command{ld}.
2515
2516 @item keeps_null_pointer_checks
2517 Target keeps null pointer checks, either due to the use of
2518 @option{-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks} or hardwired into the target.
2519
2520 @item llvm_binutils
2521 Target is using an LLVM assembler and/or linker, instead of GNU Binutils.
2522
2523 @item lto
2524 Compiler has been configured to support link-time optimization (LTO).
2525
2526 @item lto_incremental
2527 Compiler and linker support link-time optimization relocatable linking
2528 with @option{-r} and @option{-flto} options.
2529
2530 @item naked_functions
2531 Target supports the @code{naked} function attribute.
2532
2533 @item named_sections
2534 Target supports named sections.
2535
2536 @item natural_alignment_32
2537 Target uses natural alignment (aligned to type size) for types of
2538 32 bits or less.
2539
2540 @item target_natural_alignment_64
2541 Target uses natural alignment (aligned to type size) for types of
2542 64 bits or less.
2543
2544 @item noinit
2545 Target supports the @code{noinit} variable attribute.
2546
2547 @item nonpic
2548 Target does not generate PIC by default.
2549
2550 @item o_flag_in_section
2551 Target supports the 'o' flag in .section directive in assembly inputs.
2552
2553 @item offload_gcn
2554 Target has been configured for OpenACC/OpenMP offloading on AMD GCN.
2555
2556 @item persistent
2557 Target supports the @code{persistent} variable attribute.
2558
2559 @item pie_enabled
2560 Target generates PIE by default.
2561
2562 @item pcc_bitfield_type_matters
2563 Target defines @code{PCC_BITFIELD_TYPE_MATTERS}.
2564
2565 @item pe_aligned_commons
2566 Target supports @option{-mpe-aligned-commons}.
2567
2568 @item pie
2569 Target supports @option{-pie}, @option{-fpie} and @option{-fPIE}.
2570
2571 @item rdynamic
2572 Target supports @option{-rdynamic}.
2573
2574 @item scalar_all_fma
2575 Target supports all four fused multiply-add optabs for both @code{float}
2576 and @code{double}. These optabs are: @code{fma_optab}, @code{fms_optab},
2577 @code{fnma_optab} and @code{fnms_optab}.
2578
2579 @item section_anchors
2580 Target supports section anchors.
2581
2582 @item short_enums
2583 Target defaults to short enums.
2584
2585 @item stack_size
2586 @anchor{stack_size_et}
2587 Target has limited stack size. The stack size limit can be obtained using the
2588 STACK_SIZE macro defined by @ref{stack_size_ao,,@code{dg-add-options} feature
2589 @code{stack_size}}.
2590
2591 @item static
2592 Target supports @option{-static}.
2593
2594 @item static_libgfortran
2595 Target supports statically linking @samp{libgfortran}.
2596
2597 @item string_merging
2598 Target supports merging string constants at link time.
2599
2600 @item ucn
2601 Target supports compiling and assembling UCN.
2602
2603 @item ucn_nocache
2604 Including the options used to compile this particular test, the
2605 target supports compiling and assembling UCN.
2606
2607 @item unaligned_stack
2608 Target does not guarantee that its @code{STACK_BOUNDARY} is greater than
2609 or equal to the required vector alignment.
2610
2611 @item vector_alignment_reachable
2612 Vector alignment is reachable for types of 32 bits or less.
2613
2614 @item vector_alignment_reachable_for_64bit
2615 Vector alignment is reachable for types of 64 bits or less.
2616
2617 @item wchar_t_char16_t_compatible
2618 Target supports @code{wchar_t} that is compatible with @code{char16_t}.
2619
2620 @item wchar_t_char32_t_compatible
2621 Target supports @code{wchar_t} that is compatible with @code{char32_t}.
2622
2623 @item comdat_group
2624 Target uses comdat groups.
2625
2626 @item indirect_calls
2627 Target supports indirect calls, i.e. calls where the target is not
2628 constant.
2629
2630 @item lgccjit
2631 Target supports -lgccjit, i.e. libgccjit.so can be linked into jit tests.
2632 @end table
2633
2634 @subsubsection Local to tests in @code{gcc.target/i386}
2635
2636 @table @code
2637 @item 3dnow
2638 Target supports compiling @code{3dnow} instructions.
2639
2640 @item aes
2641 Target supports compiling @code{aes} instructions.
2642
2643 @item fma4
2644 Target supports compiling @code{fma4} instructions.
2645
2646 @item mfentry
2647 Target supports the @code{-mfentry} option that alters the
2648 position of profiling calls such that they precede the prologue.
2649
2650 @item ms_hook_prologue
2651 Target supports attribute @code{ms_hook_prologue}.
2652
2653 @item pclmul
2654 Target supports compiling @code{pclmul} instructions.
2655
2656 @item sse3
2657 Target supports compiling @code{sse3} instructions.
2658
2659 @item sse4
2660 Target supports compiling @code{sse4} instructions.
2661
2662 @item sse4a
2663 Target supports compiling @code{sse4a} instructions.
2664
2665 @item ssse3
2666 Target supports compiling @code{ssse3} instructions.
2667
2668 @item vaes
2669 Target supports compiling @code{vaes} instructions.
2670
2671 @item vpclmul
2672 Target supports compiling @code{vpclmul} instructions.
2673
2674 @item xop
2675 Target supports compiling @code{xop} instructions.
2676 @end table
2677
2678 @subsubsection Local to tests in @code{gcc.test-framework}
2679
2680 @table @code
2681 @item no
2682 Always returns 0.
2683
2684 @item yes
2685 Always returns 1.
2686 @end table
2687
2688 @node Add Options
2689 @subsection Features for @code{dg-add-options}
2690
2691 The supported values of @var{feature} for directive @code{dg-add-options}
2692 are:
2693
2694 @table @code
2695 @item arm_fp
2696 @code{__ARM_FP} definition. Only ARM targets support this feature, and only then
2697 in certain modes; see the @ref{arm_fp_ok,,arm_fp_ok effective target
2698 keyword}.
2699
2700 @item arm_fp_dp
2701 @code{__ARM_FP} definition with double-precision support. Only ARM
2702 targets support this feature, and only then in certain modes; see the
2703 @ref{arm_fp_dp_ok,,arm_fp_dp_ok effective target keyword}.
2704
2705 @item arm_neon
2706 NEON support. Only ARM targets support this feature, and only then
2707 in certain modes; see the @ref{arm_neon_ok,,arm_neon_ok effective target
2708 keyword}.
2709
2710 @item arm_fp16
2711 VFP half-precision floating point support. This does not select the
2712 FP16 format; for that, use @ref{arm_fp16_ieee,,arm_fp16_ieee} or
2713 @ref{arm_fp16_alternative,,arm_fp16_alternative} instead. This
2714 feature is only supported by ARM targets and then only in certain
2715 modes; see the @ref{arm_fp16_ok,,arm_fp16_ok effective target
2716 keyword}.
2717
2718 @item arm_fp16_ieee
2719 @anchor{arm_fp16_ieee}
2720 ARM IEEE 754-2008 format VFP half-precision floating point support.
2721 This feature is only supported by ARM targets and then only in certain
2722 modes; see the @ref{arm_fp16_ok,,arm_fp16_ok effective target
2723 keyword}.
2724
2725 @item arm_fp16_alternative
2726 @anchor{arm_fp16_alternative}
2727 ARM Alternative format VFP half-precision floating point support.
2728 This feature is only supported by ARM targets and then only in certain
2729 modes; see the @ref{arm_fp16_ok,,arm_fp16_ok effective target
2730 keyword}.
2731
2732 @item arm_neon_fp16
2733 NEON and half-precision floating point support. Only ARM targets
2734 support this feature, and only then in certain modes; see
2735 the @ref{arm_neon_fp16_ok,,arm_neon_fp16_ok effective target keyword}.
2736
2737 @item arm_vfp3
2738 arm vfp3 floating point support; see
2739 the @ref{arm_vfp3_ok,,arm_vfp3_ok effective target keyword}.
2740
2741 @item arm_arch_v8a_hard
2742 Add options for ARMv8-A and the hard-float variant of the AAPCS,
2743 if this is supported by the compiler; see the
2744 @ref{arm_arch_v8a_hard_ok,,arm_arch_v8a_hard_ok} effective target keyword.
2745
2746 @item arm_v8_1a_neon
2747 Add options for ARMv8.1-A with Adv.SIMD support, if this is supported
2748 by the target; see the @ref{arm_v8_1a_neon_ok,,arm_v8_1a_neon_ok}
2749 effective target keyword.
2750
2751 @item arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar
2752 Add options for ARMv8.2-A with scalar FP16 support, if this is
2753 supported by the target; see the
2754 @ref{arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok,,arm_v8_2a_fp16_scalar_ok} effective
2755 target keyword.
2756
2757 @item arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon
2758 Add options for ARMv8.2-A with Adv.SIMD FP16 support, if this is
2759 supported by the target; see the
2760 @ref{arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok,,arm_v8_2a_fp16_neon_ok} effective target
2761 keyword.
2762
2763 @item arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon
2764 Add options for ARMv8.2-A with Adv.SIMD Dot Product support, if this is
2765 supported by the target; see the
2766 @ref{arm_v8_2a_dotprod_neon_ok} effective target keyword.
2767
2768 @item arm_fp16fml_neon
2769 Add options to enable generation of the @code{VFMAL} and @code{VFMSL}
2770 instructions, if this is supported by the target; see the
2771 @ref{arm_fp16fml_neon_ok} effective target keyword.
2772
2773 @item bind_pic_locally
2774 Add the target-specific flags needed to enable functions to bind
2775 locally when using pic/PIC passes in the testsuite.
2776
2777 @item float@var{n}
2778 Add the target-specific flags needed to use the @code{_Float@var{n}} type.
2779
2780 @item float@var{n}x
2781 Add the target-specific flags needed to use the @code{_Float@var{n}x} type.
2782
2783 @item ieee
2784 Add the target-specific flags needed to enable full IEEE
2785 compliance mode.
2786
2787 @item mips16_attribute
2788 @code{mips16} function attributes.
2789 Only MIPS targets support this feature, and only then in certain modes.
2790
2791 @item stack_size
2792 @anchor{stack_size_ao}
2793 Add the flags needed to define macro STACK_SIZE and set it to the stack size
2794 limit associated with the @ref{stack_size_et,,@code{stack_size} effective
2795 target}.
2796
2797 @item sqrt_insn
2798 Add the target-specific flags needed to enable hardware square root
2799 instructions, if any.
2800
2801 @item tls
2802 Add the target-specific flags needed to use thread-local storage.
2803 @end table
2804
2805 @node Require Support
2806 @subsection Variants of @code{dg-require-@var{support}}
2807
2808 A few of the @code{dg-require} directives take arguments.
2809
2810 @table @code
2811 @item dg-require-iconv @var{codeset}
2812 Skip the test if the target does not support iconv. @var{codeset} is
2813 the codeset to convert to.
2814
2815 @item dg-require-profiling @var{profopt}
2816 Skip the test if the target does not support profiling with option
2817 @var{profopt}.
2818
2819 @item dg-require-stack-check @var{check}
2820 Skip the test if the target does not support the @code{-fstack-check}
2821 option. If @var{check} is @code{""}, support for @code{-fstack-check}
2822 is checked, for @code{-fstack-check=("@var{check}")} otherwise.
2823
2824 @item dg-require-stack-size @var{size}
2825 Skip the test if the target does not support a stack size of @var{size}.
2826
2827 @item dg-require-visibility @var{vis}
2828 Skip the test if the target does not support the @code{visibility} attribute.
2829 If @var{vis} is @code{""}, support for @code{visibility("hidden")} is
2830 checked, for @code{visibility("@var{vis}")} otherwise.
2831 @end table
2832
2833 The original @code{dg-require} directives were defined before there
2834 was support for effective-target keywords. The directives that do not
2835 take arguments could be replaced with effective-target keywords.
2836
2837 @table @code
2838 @item dg-require-alias ""
2839 Skip the test if the target does not support the @samp{alias} attribute.
2840
2841 @item dg-require-ascii-locale ""
2842 Skip the test if the host does not support an ASCII locale.
2843
2844 @item dg-require-compat-dfp ""
2845 Skip this test unless both compilers in a @file{compat} testsuite
2846 support decimal floating point.
2847
2848 @item dg-require-cxa-atexit ""
2849 Skip the test if the target does not support @code{__cxa_atexit}.
2850 This is equivalent to @code{dg-require-effective-target cxa_atexit}.
2851
2852 @item dg-require-dll ""
2853 Skip the test if the target does not support DLL attributes.
2854
2855 @item dg-require-dot ""
2856 Skip the test if the host does not have @command{dot}.
2857
2858 @item dg-require-fork ""
2859 Skip the test if the target does not support @code{fork}.
2860
2861 @item dg-require-gc-sections ""
2862 Skip the test if the target's linker does not support the
2863 @code{--gc-sections} flags.
2864 This is equivalent to @code{dg-require-effective-target gc-sections}.
2865
2866 @item dg-require-host-local ""
2867 Skip the test if the host is remote, rather than the same as the build
2868 system. Some tests are incompatible with DejaGnu's handling of remote
2869 hosts, which involves copying the source file to the host and compiling
2870 it with a relative path and "@code{-o a.out}".
2871
2872 @item dg-require-mkfifo ""
2873 Skip the test if the target does not support @code{mkfifo}.
2874
2875 @item dg-require-named-sections ""
2876 Skip the test is the target does not support named sections.
2877 This is equivalent to @code{dg-require-effective-target named_sections}.
2878
2879 @item dg-require-weak ""
2880 Skip the test if the target does not support weak symbols.
2881
2882 @item dg-require-weak-override ""
2883 Skip the test if the target does not support overriding weak symbols.
2884 @end table
2885
2886 @node Final Actions
2887 @subsection Commands for use in @code{dg-final}
2888
2889 The GCC testsuite defines the following directives to be used within
2890 @code{dg-final}.
2891
2892 @subsubsection Scan a particular file
2893
2894 @table @code
2895 @item scan-file @var{filename} @var{regexp} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2896 Passes if @var{regexp} matches text in @var{filename}.
2897 @item scan-file-not @var{filename} @var{regexp} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2898 Passes if @var{regexp} does not match text in @var{filename}.
2899 @item scan-module @var{module} @var{regexp} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2900 Passes if @var{regexp} matches in Fortran module @var{module}.
2901 @item dg-check-dot @var{filename}
2902 Passes if @var{filename} is a valid @file{.dot} file (by running
2903 @code{dot -Tpng} on it, and verifying the exit code is 0).
2904 @end table
2905
2906 @subsubsection Scan the assembly output
2907
2908 @table @code
2909 @item scan-assembler @var{regex} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2910 Passes if @var{regex} matches text in the test's assembler output.
2911
2912 @item scan-assembler-not @var{regex} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2913 Passes if @var{regex} does not match text in the test's assembler output.
2914
2915 @item scan-assembler-times @var{regex} @var{num} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2916 Passes if @var{regex} is matched exactly @var{num} times in the test's
2917 assembler output.
2918
2919 @item scan-assembler-dem @var{regex} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2920 Passes if @var{regex} matches text in the test's demangled assembler output.
2921
2922 @item scan-assembler-dem-not @var{regex} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2923 Passes if @var{regex} does not match text in the test's demangled assembler
2924 output.
2925
2926 @item scan-assembler-symbol-section @var{functions} @var{section} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2927 Passes if @var{functions} are all in @var{section}. The caller needs to
2928 allow for @code{USER_LABEL_PREFIX} and different section name conventions.
2929
2930 @item scan-symbol-section @var{filename} @var{functions} @var{section} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2931 Passes if @var{functions} are all in @var{section}in @var{filename}.
2932 The same caveats as for @code{scan-assembler-symbol-section} apply.
2933
2934 @item scan-hidden @var{symbol} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2935 Passes if @var{symbol} is defined as a hidden symbol in the test's
2936 assembly output.
2937
2938 @item scan-not-hidden @var{symbol} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2939 Passes if @var{symbol} is not defined as a hidden symbol in the test's
2940 assembly output.
2941
2942 @item check-function-bodies @var{prefix} @var{terminator} [@var{options} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]]
2943 Looks through the source file for comments that give the expected assembly
2944 output for selected functions. Each line of expected output starts with the
2945 prefix string @var{prefix} and the expected output for a function as a whole
2946 is followed by a line that starts with the string @var{terminator}.
2947 Specifying an empty terminator is equivalent to specifying @samp{"*/"}.
2948
2949 @var{options}, if specified, is a list of regular expressions, each of
2950 which matches a full command-line option. A non-empty list prevents
2951 the test from running unless all of the given options are present on the
2952 command line. This can help if a source file is compiled both with
2953 and without optimization, since it is rarely useful to check the full
2954 function body for unoptimized code.
2955
2956 The first line of the expected output for a function @var{fn} has the form:
2957
2958 @smallexample
2959 @var{prefix} @var{fn}: [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
2960 @end smallexample
2961
2962 Subsequent lines of the expected output also start with @var{prefix}.
2963 In both cases, whitespace after @var{prefix} is not significant.
2964
2965 The test discards assembly directives such as @code{.cfi_startproc}
2966 and local label definitions such as @code{.LFB0} from the compiler's
2967 assembly output. It then matches the result against the expected
2968 output for a function as a single regular expression. This means that
2969 later lines can use backslashes to refer back to @samp{(@dots{})}
2970 captures on earlier lines. For example:
2971
2972 @smallexample
2973 /* @{ dg-final @{ check-function-bodies "**" "" "-DCHECK_ASM" @} @} */
2974 @dots{}
2975 /*
2976 ** add_w0_s8_m:
2977 ** mov (z[0-9]+\.b), w0
2978 ** add z0\.b, p0/m, z0\.b, \1
2979 ** ret
2980 */
2981 svint8_t add_w0_s8_m (@dots{}) @{ @dots{} @}
2982 @dots{}
2983 /*
2984 ** add_b0_s8_m:
2985 ** mov (z[0-9]+\.b), b0
2986 ** add z1\.b, p0/m, z1\.b, \1
2987 ** ret
2988 */
2989 svint8_t add_b0_s8_m (@dots{}) @{ @dots{} @}
2990 @end smallexample
2991
2992 checks whether the implementations of @code{add_w0_s8_m} and
2993 @code{add_b0_s8_m} match the regular expressions given. The test only
2994 runs when @samp{-DCHECK_ASM} is passed on the command line.
2995
2996 It is possible to create non-capturing multi-line regular expression
2997 groups of the form @samp{(@var{a}|@var{b}|@dots{})} by putting the
2998 @samp{(}, @samp{|} and @samp{)} on separate lines (each still using
2999 @var{prefix}). For example:
3000
3001 @smallexample
3002 /*
3003 ** cmple_f16_tied:
3004 ** (
3005 ** fcmge p0\.h, p0/z, z1\.h, z0\.h
3006 ** |
3007 ** fcmle p0\.h, p0/z, z0\.h, z1\.h
3008 ** )
3009 ** ret
3010 */
3011 svbool_t cmple_f16_tied (@dots{}) @{ @dots{} @}
3012 @end smallexample
3013
3014 checks whether @code{cmple_f16_tied} is implemented by the
3015 @code{fcmge} instruction followed by @code{ret} or by the
3016 @code{fcmle} instruction followed by @code{ret}. The test is
3017 still a single regular rexpression.
3018
3019 A line containing just:
3020
3021 @smallexample
3022 @var{prefix} ...
3023 @end smallexample
3024
3025 stands for zero or more unmatched lines; the whitespace after
3026 @var{prefix} is again not significant.
3027
3028 @end table
3029
3030 @subsubsection Scan optimization dump files
3031
3032 These commands are available for @var{kind} of @code{tree}, @code{ltrans-tree},
3033 @code{offload-tree}, @code{rtl}, @code{offload-rtl}, @code{ipa}, and
3034 @code{wpa-ipa}.
3035
3036 @table @code
3037 @item scan-@var{kind}-dump @var{regex} @var{suffix} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3038 Passes if @var{regex} matches text in the dump file with suffix @var{suffix}.
3039
3040 @item scan-@var{kind}-dump-not @var{regex} @var{suffix} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3041 Passes if @var{regex} does not match text in the dump file with suffix
3042 @var{suffix}.
3043
3044 @item scan-@var{kind}-dump-times @var{regex} @var{num} @var{suffix} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3045 Passes if @var{regex} is found exactly @var{num} times in the dump file
3046 with suffix @var{suffix}.
3047
3048 @item scan-@var{kind}-dump-dem @var{regex} @var{suffix} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3049 Passes if @var{regex} matches demangled text in the dump file with
3050 suffix @var{suffix}.
3051
3052 @item scan-@var{kind}-dump-dem-not @var{regex} @var{suffix} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3053 Passes if @var{regex} does not match demangled text in the dump file with
3054 suffix @var{suffix}.
3055 @end table
3056
3057 The @var{suffix} argument which describes the dump file to be scanned
3058 may contain a glob pattern that must expand to exactly one file
3059 name. This is useful if, e.g., different pass instances are executed
3060 depending on torture testing command-line flags, producing dump files
3061 whose names differ only in their pass instance number suffix. For
3062 example, to scan instances 1, 2, 3 of a tree pass ``mypass'' for
3063 occurrences of the string ``code has been optimized'', use:
3064 @smallexample
3065 /* @{ dg-options "-fdump-tree-mypass" @} */
3066 /* @{ dg-final @{ scan-tree-dump "code has been optimized" "mypass\[1-3\]" @} @} */
3067 @end smallexample
3068
3069
3070 @subsubsection Check for output files
3071
3072 @table @code
3073 @item output-exists [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3074 Passes if compiler output file exists.
3075
3076 @item output-exists-not [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3077 Passes if compiler output file does not exist.
3078
3079 @item scan-symbol @var{regexp} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3080 Passes if the pattern is present in the final executable.
3081
3082 @item scan-symbol-not @var{regexp} [@{ target/xfail @var{selector} @}]
3083 Passes if the pattern is absent from the final executable.
3084 @end table
3085
3086 @subsubsection Checks for @command{gcov} tests
3087
3088 @table @code
3089 @item run-gcov @var{sourcefile}
3090 Check line counts in @command{gcov} tests.
3091
3092 @item run-gcov [branches] [calls] @{ @var{opts} @var{sourcefile} @}
3093 Check branch and/or call counts, in addition to line counts, in
3094 @command{gcov} tests.
3095
3096 @item run-gcov-pytest @{ @var{sourcefile} @var{pytest_file} @}
3097 Check output of @command{gcov} intermediate format with a pytest
3098 script.
3099 @end table
3100
3101 @subsubsection Clean up generated test files
3102
3103 Usually the test-framework removes files that were generated during
3104 testing. If a testcase, for example, uses any dumping mechanism to
3105 inspect a passes dump file, the testsuite recognized the dump option
3106 passed to the tool and schedules a final cleanup to remove these files.
3107
3108 There are, however, following additional cleanup directives that can be
3109 used to annotate a testcase "manually".
3110 @table @code
3111 @item cleanup-coverage-files
3112 Removes coverage data files generated for this test.
3113
3114 @item cleanup-modules "@var{list-of-extra-modules}"
3115 Removes Fortran module files generated for this test, excluding the
3116 module names listed in keep-modules.
3117 Cleaning up module files is usually done automatically by the testsuite
3118 by looking at the source files and removing the modules after the test
3119 has been executed.
3120 @smallexample
3121 module MoD1
3122 end module MoD1
3123 module Mod2
3124 end module Mod2
3125 module moD3
3126 end module moD3
3127 module mod4
3128 end module mod4
3129 ! @{ dg-final @{ cleanup-modules "mod1 mod2" @} @} ! redundant
3130 ! @{ dg-final @{ keep-modules "mod3 mod4" @} @}
3131 @end smallexample
3132
3133 @item keep-modules "@var{list-of-modules-not-to-delete}"
3134 Whitespace separated list of module names that should not be deleted by
3135 cleanup-modules.
3136 If the list of modules is empty, all modules defined in this file are kept.
3137 @smallexample
3138 module maybe_unneeded
3139 end module maybe_unneeded
3140 module keep1
3141 end module keep1
3142 module keep2
3143 end module keep2
3144 ! @{ dg-final @{ keep-modules "keep1 keep2" @} @} ! just keep these two
3145 ! @{ dg-final @{ keep-modules "" @} @} ! keep all
3146 @end smallexample
3147
3148 @item dg-keep-saved-temps "@var{list-of-suffixes-not-to-delete}"
3149 Whitespace separated list of suffixes that should not be deleted
3150 automatically in a testcase that uses @option{-save-temps}.
3151 @smallexample
3152 // @{ dg-options "-save-temps -fpch-preprocess -I." @}
3153 int main() @{ return 0; @}
3154 // @{ dg-keep-saved-temps ".s" @} ! just keep assembler file
3155 // @{ dg-keep-saved-temps ".s" ".i" @} ! ... and .i
3156 // @{ dg-keep-saved-temps ".ii" ".o" @} ! or just .ii and .o
3157 @end smallexample
3158
3159 @item cleanup-profile-file
3160 Removes profiling files generated for this test.
3161
3162 @end table
3163
3164 @node Ada Tests
3165 @section Ada Language Testsuites
3166
3167 The Ada testsuite includes executable tests from the ACATS
3168 testsuite, publicly available at
3169 @uref{http://www.ada-auth.org/acats.html}.
3170
3171 These tests are integrated in the GCC testsuite in the
3172 @file{ada/acats} directory, and
3173 enabled automatically when running @code{make check}, assuming
3174 the Ada language has been enabled when configuring GCC@.
3175
3176 You can also run the Ada testsuite independently, using
3177 @code{make check-ada}, or run a subset of the tests by specifying which
3178 chapter to run, e.g.:
3179
3180 @smallexample
3181 $ make check-ada CHAPTERS="c3 c9"
3182 @end smallexample
3183
3184 The tests are organized by directory, each directory corresponding to
3185 a chapter of the Ada Reference Manual. So for example, @file{c9} corresponds
3186 to chapter 9, which deals with tasking features of the language.
3187
3188 The tests are run using two @command{sh} scripts: @file{run_acats} and
3189 @file{run_all.sh}. To run the tests using a simulator or a cross
3190 target, see the small
3191 customization section at the top of @file{run_all.sh}.
3192
3193 These tests are run using the build tree: they can be run without doing
3194 a @code{make install}.
3195
3196 @node C Tests
3197 @section C Language Testsuites
3198
3199 GCC contains the following C language testsuites, in the
3200 @file{gcc/testsuite} directory:
3201
3202 @table @file
3203 @item gcc.dg
3204 This contains tests of particular features of the C compiler, using the
3205 more modern @samp{dg} harness. Correctness tests for various compiler
3206 features should go here if possible.
3207
3208 Magic comments determine whether the file
3209 is preprocessed, compiled, linked or run. In these tests, error and warning
3210 message texts are compared against expected texts or regular expressions
3211 given in comments. These tests are run with the options @samp{-ansi -pedantic}
3212 unless other options are given in the test. Except as noted below they
3213 are not run with multiple optimization options.
3214 @item gcc.dg/compat
3215 This subdirectory contains tests for binary compatibility using
3216 @file{lib/compat.exp}, which in turn uses the language-independent support
3217 (@pxref{compat Testing, , Support for testing binary compatibility}).
3218 @item gcc.dg/cpp
3219 This subdirectory contains tests of the preprocessor.
3220 @item gcc.dg/debug
3221 This subdirectory contains tests for debug formats. Tests in this
3222 subdirectory are run for each debug format that the compiler supports.
3223 @item gcc.dg/format
3224 This subdirectory contains tests of the @option{-Wformat} format
3225 checking. Tests in this directory are run with and without
3226 @option{-DWIDE}.
3227 @item gcc.dg/noncompile
3228 This subdirectory contains tests of code that should not compile and
3229 does not need any special compilation options. They are run with
3230 multiple optimization options, since sometimes invalid code crashes
3231 the compiler with optimization.
3232 @item gcc.dg/special
3233 FIXME: describe this.
3234
3235 @item gcc.c-torture
3236 This contains particular code fragments which have historically broken easily.
3237 These tests are run with multiple optimization options, so tests for features
3238 which only break at some optimization levels belong here. This also contains
3239 tests to check that certain optimizations occur. It might be worthwhile to
3240 separate the correctness tests cleanly from the code quality tests, but
3241 it hasn't been done yet.
3242
3243 @item gcc.c-torture/compat
3244 FIXME: describe this.
3245
3246 This directory should probably not be used for new tests.
3247 @item gcc.c-torture/compile
3248 This testsuite contains test cases that should compile, but do not
3249 need to link or run. These test cases are compiled with several
3250 different combinations of optimization options. All warnings are
3251 disabled for these test cases, so this directory is not suitable if
3252 you wish to test for the presence or absence of compiler warnings.
3253 While special options can be set, and tests disabled on specific
3254 platforms, by the use of @file{.x} files, mostly these test cases
3255 should not contain platform dependencies. FIXME: discuss how defines
3256 such as @code{STACK_SIZE} are used.
3257 @item gcc.c-torture/execute
3258 This testsuite contains test cases that should compile, link and run;
3259 otherwise the same comments as for @file{gcc.c-torture/compile} apply.
3260 @item gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee
3261 This contains tests which are specific to IEEE floating point.
3262 @item gcc.c-torture/unsorted
3263 FIXME: describe this.
3264
3265 This directory should probably not be used for new tests.
3266 @item gcc.misc-tests
3267 This directory contains C tests that require special handling. Some
3268 of these tests have individual expect files, and others share
3269 special-purpose expect files:
3270
3271 @table @file
3272 @item @code{bprob*.c}
3273 Test @option{-fbranch-probabilities} using
3274 @file{gcc.misc-tests/bprob.exp}, which
3275 in turn uses the generic, language-independent framework
3276 (@pxref{profopt Testing, , Support for testing profile-directed
3277 optimizations}).
3278
3279 @item @code{gcov*.c}
3280 Test @command{gcov} output using @file{gcov.exp}, which in turn uses the
3281 language-independent support (@pxref{gcov Testing, , Support for testing gcov}).
3282
3283 @item @code{i386-pf-*.c}
3284 Test i386-specific support for data prefetch using @file{i386-prefetch.exp}.
3285 @end table
3286
3287 @item gcc.test-framework
3288 @table @file
3289 @item @code{dg-*.c}
3290 Test the testsuite itself using @file{gcc.test-framework/test-framework.exp}.
3291 @end table
3292
3293 @end table
3294
3295 FIXME: merge in @file{testsuite/README.gcc} and discuss the format of
3296 test cases and magic comments more.
3297
3298 @node LTO Testing
3299 @section Support for testing link-time optimizations
3300
3301 Tests for link-time optimizations usually require multiple source files
3302 that are compiled separately, perhaps with different sets of options.
3303 There are several special-purpose test directives used for these tests.
3304
3305 @table @code
3306 @item @{ dg-lto-do @var{do-what-keyword} @}
3307 @var{do-what-keyword} specifies how the test is compiled and whether
3308 it is executed. It is one of:
3309
3310 @table @code
3311 @item assemble
3312 Compile with @option{-c} to produce a relocatable object file.
3313 @item link
3314 Compile, assemble, and link to produce an executable file.
3315 @item run
3316 Produce and run an executable file, which is expected to return
3317 an exit code of 0.
3318 @end table
3319
3320 The default is @code{assemble}. That can be overridden for a set of
3321 tests by redefining @code{dg-do-what-default} within the @code{.exp}
3322 file for those tests.
3323
3324 Unlike @code{dg-do}, @code{dg-lto-do} does not support an optional
3325 @samp{target} or @samp{xfail} list. Use @code{dg-skip-if},
3326 @code{dg-xfail-if}, or @code{dg-xfail-run-if}.
3327
3328 @item @{ dg-lto-options @{ @{ @var{options} @} [@{ @var{options} @}] @} [@{ target @var{selector} @}]@}
3329 This directive provides a list of one or more sets of compiler options
3330 to override @var{LTO_OPTIONS}. Each test will be compiled and run with
3331 each of these sets of options.
3332
3333 @item @{ dg-extra-ld-options @var{options} [@{ target @var{selector} @}]@}
3334 This directive adds @var{options} to the linker options used.
3335
3336 @item @{ dg-suppress-ld-options @var{options} [@{ target @var{selector} @}]@}
3337 This directive removes @var{options} from the set of linker options used.
3338 @end table
3339
3340 @node gcov Testing
3341 @section Support for testing @command{gcov}
3342
3343 Language-independent support for testing @command{gcov}, and for checking
3344 that branch profiling produces expected values, is provided by the
3345 expect file @file{lib/gcov.exp}. @command{gcov} tests also rely on procedures
3346 in @file{lib/gcc-dg.exp} to compile and run the test program. A typical
3347 @command{gcov} test contains the following DejaGnu commands within comments:
3348
3349 @smallexample
3350 @{ dg-options "--coverage" @}
3351 @{ dg-do run @{ target native @} @}
3352 @{ dg-final @{ run-gcov sourcefile @} @}
3353 @end smallexample
3354
3355 Checks of @command{gcov} output can include line counts, branch percentages,
3356 and call return percentages. All of these checks are requested via
3357 commands that appear in comments in the test's source file.
3358 Commands to check line counts are processed by default.
3359 Commands to check branch percentages and call return percentages are
3360 processed if the @command{run-gcov} command has arguments @code{branches}
3361 or @code{calls}, respectively. For example, the following specifies
3362 checking both, as well as passing @option{-b} to @command{gcov}:
3363
3364 @smallexample
3365 @{ dg-final @{ run-gcov branches calls @{ -b sourcefile @} @} @}
3366 @end smallexample
3367
3368 A line count command appears within a comment on the source line
3369 that is expected to get the specified count and has the form
3370 @code{count(@var{cnt})}. A test should only check line counts for
3371 lines that will get the same count for any architecture.
3372
3373 Commands to check branch percentages (@code{branch}) and call
3374 return percentages (@code{returns}) are very similar to each other.
3375 A beginning command appears on or before the first of a range of
3376 lines that will report the percentage, and the ending command
3377 follows that range of lines. The beginning command can include a
3378 list of percentages, all of which are expected to be found within
3379 the range. A range is terminated by the next command of the same
3380 kind. A command @code{branch(end)} or @code{returns(end)} marks
3381 the end of a range without starting a new one. For example:
3382
3383 @smallexample
3384 if (i > 10 && j > i && j < 20) /* @r{branch(27 50 75)} */
3385 /* @r{branch(end)} */
3386 foo (i, j);
3387 @end smallexample
3388
3389 For a call return percentage, the value specified is the
3390 percentage of calls reported to return. For a branch percentage,
3391 the value is either the expected percentage or 100 minus that
3392 value, since the direction of a branch can differ depending on the
3393 target or the optimization level.
3394
3395 Not all branches and calls need to be checked. A test should not
3396 check for branches that might be optimized away or replaced with
3397 predicated instructions. Don't check for calls inserted by the
3398 compiler or ones that might be inlined or optimized away.
3399
3400 A single test can check for combinations of line counts, branch
3401 percentages, and call return percentages. The command to check a
3402 line count must appear on the line that will report that count, but
3403 commands to check branch percentages and call return percentages can
3404 bracket the lines that report them.
3405
3406 @node profopt Testing
3407 @section Support for testing profile-directed optimizations
3408
3409 The file @file{profopt.exp} provides language-independent support for
3410 checking correct execution of a test built with profile-directed
3411 optimization. This testing requires that a test program be built and
3412 executed twice. The first time it is compiled to generate profile
3413 data, and the second time it is compiled to use the data that was
3414 generated during the first execution. The second execution is to
3415 verify that the test produces the expected results.
3416
3417 To check that the optimization actually generated better code, a
3418 test can be built and run a third time with normal optimizations to
3419 verify that the performance is better with the profile-directed
3420 optimizations. @file{profopt.exp} has the beginnings of this kind
3421 of support.
3422
3423 @file{profopt.exp} provides generic support for profile-directed
3424 optimizations. Each set of tests that uses it provides information
3425 about a specific optimization:
3426
3427 @table @code
3428 @item tool
3429 tool being tested, e.g., @command{gcc}
3430
3431 @item profile_option
3432 options used to generate profile data
3433
3434 @item feedback_option
3435 options used to optimize using that profile data
3436
3437 @item prof_ext
3438 suffix of profile data files
3439
3440 @item PROFOPT_OPTIONS
3441 list of options with which to run each test, similar to the lists for
3442 torture tests
3443
3444 @item @{ dg-final-generate @{ @var{local-directive} @} @}
3445 This directive is similar to @code{dg-final}, but the
3446 @var{local-directive} is run after the generation of profile data.
3447
3448 @item @{ dg-final-use @{ @var{local-directive} @} @}
3449 The @var{local-directive} is run after the profile data have been
3450 used.
3451 @end table
3452
3453 @node compat Testing
3454 @section Support for testing binary compatibility
3455
3456 The file @file{compat.exp} provides language-independent support for
3457 binary compatibility testing. It supports testing interoperability of
3458 two compilers that follow the same ABI, or of multiple sets of
3459 compiler options that should not affect binary compatibility. It is
3460 intended to be used for testsuites that complement ABI testsuites.
3461
3462 A test supported by this framework has three parts, each in a
3463 separate source file: a main program and two pieces that interact
3464 with each other to split up the functionality being tested.
3465
3466 @table @file
3467 @item @var{testname}_main.@var{suffix}
3468 Contains the main program, which calls a function in file
3469 @file{@var{testname}_x.@var{suffix}}.
3470
3471 @item @var{testname}_x.@var{suffix}
3472 Contains at least one call to a function in
3473 @file{@var{testname}_y.@var{suffix}}.
3474
3475 @item @var{testname}_y.@var{suffix}
3476 Shares data with, or gets arguments from,
3477 @file{@var{testname}_x.@var{suffix}}.
3478 @end table
3479
3480 Within each test, the main program and one functional piece are
3481 compiled by the GCC under test. The other piece can be compiled by
3482 an alternate compiler. If no alternate compiler is specified,
3483 then all three source files are all compiled by the GCC under test.
3484 You can specify pairs of sets of compiler options. The first element
3485 of such a pair specifies options used with the GCC under test, and the
3486 second element of the pair specifies options used with the alternate
3487 compiler. Each test is compiled with each pair of options.
3488
3489 @file{compat.exp} defines default pairs of compiler options.
3490 These can be overridden by defining the environment variable
3491 @env{COMPAT_OPTIONS} as:
3492
3493 @smallexample
3494 COMPAT_OPTIONS="[list [list @{@var{tst1}@} @{@var{alt1}@}]
3495 @dots{}[list @{@var{tstn}@} @{@var{altn}@}]]"
3496 @end smallexample
3497
3498 where @var{tsti} and @var{alti} are lists of options, with @var{tsti}
3499 used by the compiler under test and @var{alti} used by the alternate
3500 compiler. For example, with
3501 @code{[list [list @{-g -O0@} @{-O3@}] [list @{-fpic@} @{-fPIC -O2@}]]},
3502 the test is first built with @option{-g -O0} by the compiler under
3503 test and with @option{-O3} by the alternate compiler. The test is
3504 built a second time using @option{-fpic} by the compiler under test
3505 and @option{-fPIC -O2} by the alternate compiler.
3506
3507 An alternate compiler is specified by defining an environment
3508 variable to be the full pathname of an installed compiler; for C
3509 define @env{ALT_CC_UNDER_TEST}, and for C++ define
3510 @env{ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST}. These will be written to the
3511 @file{site.exp} file used by DejaGnu. The default is to build each
3512 test with the compiler under test using the first of each pair of
3513 compiler options from @env{COMPAT_OPTIONS}. When
3514 @env{ALT_CC_UNDER_TEST} or
3515 @env{ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST} is @code{same}, each test is built using
3516 the compiler under test but with combinations of the options from
3517 @env{COMPAT_OPTIONS}.
3518
3519 To run only the C++ compatibility suite using the compiler under test
3520 and another version of GCC using specific compiler options, do the
3521 following from @file{@var{objdir}/gcc}:
3522
3523 @smallexample
3524 rm site.exp
3525 make -k \
3526 ALT_CXX_UNDER_TEST=$@{alt_prefix@}/bin/g++ \
3527 COMPAT_OPTIONS="@var{lists as shown above}" \
3528 check-c++ \
3529 RUNTESTFLAGS="compat.exp"
3530 @end smallexample
3531
3532 A test that fails when the source files are compiled with different
3533 compilers, but passes when the files are compiled with the same
3534 compiler, demonstrates incompatibility of the generated code or
3535 runtime support. A test that fails for the alternate compiler but
3536 passes for the compiler under test probably tests for a bug that was
3537 fixed in the compiler under test but is present in the alternate
3538 compiler.
3539
3540 The binary compatibility tests support a small number of test framework
3541 commands that appear within comments in a test file.
3542
3543 @table @code
3544 @item dg-require-*
3545 These commands can be used in @file{@var{testname}_main.@var{suffix}}
3546 to skip the test if specific support is not available on the target.
3547
3548 @item dg-options
3549 The specified options are used for compiling this particular source
3550 file, appended to the options from @env{COMPAT_OPTIONS}. When this
3551 command appears in @file{@var{testname}_main.@var{suffix}} the options
3552 are also used to link the test program.
3553
3554 @item dg-xfail-if
3555 This command can be used in a secondary source file to specify that
3556 compilation is expected to fail for particular options on particular
3557 targets.
3558 @end table
3559
3560 @node Torture Tests
3561 @section Support for torture testing using multiple options
3562
3563 Throughout the compiler testsuite there are several directories whose
3564 tests are run multiple times, each with a different set of options.
3565 These are known as torture tests.
3566 @file{lib/torture-options.exp} defines procedures to
3567 set up these lists:
3568
3569 @table @code
3570 @item torture-init
3571 Initialize use of torture lists.
3572 @item set-torture-options
3573 Set lists of torture options to use for tests with and without loops.
3574 Optionally combine a set of torture options with a set of other
3575 options, as is done with Objective-C runtime options.
3576 @item torture-finish
3577 Finalize use of torture lists.
3578 @end table
3579
3580 The @file{.exp} file for a set of tests that use torture options must
3581 include calls to these three procedures if:
3582
3583 @itemize @bullet
3584 @item It calls @code{gcc-dg-runtest} and overrides @var{DG_TORTURE_OPTIONS}.
3585
3586 @item It calls @var{$@{tool@}}@code{-torture} or
3587 @var{$@{tool@}}@code{-torture-execute}, where @var{tool} is @code{c},
3588 @code{fortran}, or @code{objc}.
3589
3590 @item It calls @code{dg-pch}.
3591 @end itemize
3592
3593 It is not necessary for a @file{.exp} file that calls @code{gcc-dg-runtest}
3594 to call the torture procedures if the tests should use the list in
3595 @var{DG_TORTURE_OPTIONS} defined in @file{gcc-dg.exp}.
3596
3597 Most uses of torture options can override the default lists by defining
3598 @var{TORTURE_OPTIONS} or add to the default list by defining
3599 @var{ADDITIONAL_TORTURE_OPTIONS}. Define these in a @file{.dejagnurc}
3600 file or add them to the @file{site.exp} file; for example
3601
3602 @smallexample
3603 set ADDITIONAL_TORTURE_OPTIONS [list \
3604 @{ -O2 -ftree-loop-linear @} \
3605 @{ -O2 -fpeel-loops @} ]
3606 @end smallexample
3607
3608 @node GIMPLE Tests
3609 @section Support for testing GIMPLE passes
3610
3611 As of gcc 7, C functions can be tagged with @code{__GIMPLE} to indicate
3612 that the function body will be GIMPLE, rather than C. The compiler requires
3613 the option @option{-fgimple} to enable this functionality. For example:
3614
3615 @smallexample
3616 /* @{ dg-do compile @} */
3617 /* @{ dg-options "-O -fgimple" @} */
3618
3619 void __GIMPLE (startwith ("dse2")) foo ()
3620 @{
3621 int a;
3622
3623 bb_2:
3624 if (a > 4)
3625 goto bb_3;
3626 else
3627 goto bb_4;
3628
3629 bb_3:
3630 a_2 = 10;
3631 goto bb_5;
3632
3633 bb_4:
3634 a_3 = 20;
3635
3636 bb_5:
3637 a_1 = __PHI (bb_3: a_2, bb_4: a_3);
3638 a_4 = a_1 + 4;
3639
3640 return;
3641 @}
3642 @end smallexample
3643
3644 The @code{startwith} argument indicates at which pass to begin.
3645
3646 Use the dump modifier @code{-gimple} (e.g.@: @option{-fdump-tree-all-gimple})
3647 to make tree dumps more closely follow the format accepted by the GIMPLE
3648 parser.
3649
3650 Example DejaGnu tests of GIMPLE can be seen in the source tree at
3651 @file{gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/gimplefe-*.c}.
3652
3653 The @code{__GIMPLE} parser is integrated with the C tokenizer and
3654 preprocessor, so it should be possible to use macros to build out
3655 test coverage.
3656
3657 @node RTL Tests
3658 @section Support for testing RTL passes
3659
3660 As of gcc 7, C functions can be tagged with @code{__RTL} to indicate that the
3661 function body will be RTL, rather than C. For example:
3662
3663 @smallexample
3664 double __RTL (startwith ("ira")) test (struct foo *f, const struct bar *b)
3665 @{
3666 (function "test"
3667 [...snip; various directives go in here...]
3668 ) ;; function "test"
3669 @}
3670 @end smallexample
3671
3672 The @code{startwith} argument indicates at which pass to begin.
3673
3674 The parser expects the RTL body to be in the format emitted by this
3675 dumping function:
3676
3677 @smallexample
3678 DEBUG_FUNCTION void
3679 print_rtx_function (FILE *outfile, function *fn, bool compact);
3680 @end smallexample
3681
3682 when "compact" is true. So you can capture RTL in the correct format
3683 from the debugger using:
3684
3685 @smallexample
3686 (gdb) print_rtx_function (stderr, cfun, true);
3687 @end smallexample
3688
3689 and copy and paste the output into the body of the C function.
3690
3691 Example DejaGnu tests of RTL can be seen in the source tree under
3692 @file{gcc/testsuite/gcc.dg/rtl}.
3693
3694 The @code{__RTL} parser is not integrated with the C tokenizer or
3695 preprocessor, and works simply by reading the relevant lines within
3696 the braces. In particular, the RTL body must be on separate lines from
3697 the enclosing braces, and the preprocessor is not usable within it.