This is a shameless rip-off of https://github.com/google/benchmark/pull/646
I did promise to look into why that proposed PR was producing
so much worse assembly, and so i finally did.
The reason is - that diff changes `size_t` (unsigned) to `int64_t` (signed).
There is this nice little `assert`:
7a1c370283/include/benchmark/benchmark.h (L744)
It ensures that we didn't magically decide to advance our iterator
when we should have finished benchmarking.
When `cached_` was unsigned, the `assert` was `cached_ UGT 0`.
But we only ever get to that `assert` if `cached_ NE 0`,
and naturally if `cached_` is not `0`, then it is bigger than `0`,
so the `assert` is tautological, and gets folded away.
But now that `cached_` became signed, the assert became `cached_ SGT 0`.
And we still only know that `cached_ NE 0`, so the assert can't be
optimized out, or at least it doesn't currently.
Regardless of whether or not that is a bug in itself,
that particular diff would have regressed the normal 64-bit systems,
by halving the maximal iteration space (since we go from unsigned counter
to signed one, of the same bit-width), which seems like a bug.
And just so it happens, fixing *this* bug, fixes the other bug.
This produces fully (bit-by-bit) identical state_assembly_test.s
The filecheck change is actually needed regardless of this patch,
else this test does not pass for me even without this diff.
* format all documents according to contributor guidelines and specifications
use clang-format on/off to stop formatting when it makes excessively poor decisions
* format all tests as well, and mark blocks which change too much
* Add tests to verify assembler output -- Fix DoNotOptimize.
For things like `DoNotOptimize`, `ClobberMemory`, and even `KeepRunning()`,
it is important exactly what assembly they generate. However, we currently
have no way to test this. Instead it must be manually validated every
time a change occurs -- including a change in compiler version.
This patch attempts to introduce a way to test the assembled output automatically.
It's mirrors how LLVM verifies compiler output, and it uses LLVM FileCheck to run
the tests in a similar way.
The tests function by generating the assembly for a test in CMake, and then
using FileCheck to verify the // CHECK lines in the source file are found
in the generated assembly.
Currently, the tests only run on 64-bit x86 systems under GCC and Clang,
and when FileCheck is found on the system.
Additionally, this patch tries to improve the code gen from DoNotOptimize.
This should probably be a separate change, but I needed something to test.
* Disable assembly tests on Bazel for now
* Link FIXME to github issue
* Fix Tests on OS X
* fix strip_asm.py to work on both Linux and OS X like targets
