rust/COMPILER_TESTS.md
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# Compiler Test Documentation
In the Rust project, we use a special set of commands embedded in
comments to test the Rust compiler. There are two groups of commands:
1. Header commands
2. Error info commands
Both types of commands are inside comments, but header commands should
be in a comment before any code.
## Summary of Error Info Commands
Error commands specify something about certain lines of the
program. They tell the test what kind of error and what message you
are expecting.
* `~`: Associates the following error level and message with the
current line
* `~|`: Associates the following error level and message with the same
line as the previous comment
* `~^`: Associates the following error level and message with the
previous line. Each caret (`^`) that you add adds a line to this, so
`~^^^^^^^` is seven lines up.
The error levels that you can have are:
1. `ERROR`
2. `WARNING`
3. `NOTE`
4. `HELP` and `SUGGESTION`*
\* **Note**: `SUGGESTION` must follow immediately after `HELP`.
## Summary of Header Commands
Header commands specify something about the entire test file as a
whole, instead of just a few lines inside the test.
* `ignore-X` where `X` is an architecture, OS or stage will ignore the test accordingly
* `ignore-pretty` will not compile the pretty-printed test (this is done to test the pretty-printer, but might not always work)
* `ignore-test` always ignores the test
* `ignore-lldb` and `ignore-gdb` will skip the debuginfo tests
* `min-{gdb,lldb}-version`