mlugg 67e6df4313 tests: remove more old async tests
The rejection of #6025 indicates that if stackless coroutines return to
Zig, they will look quite different; see #23446 for the working draft
proposal for their return (though it will definitely be tweaked before
being accepted). Some of this test coverage was deleted in 40d11cc, but
because stackless coroutines will take on a new form if re-introduced, I
anticipate that essentially *none* of this coverage will be relevant. Of
course, if it for some reason is, we can always grab it from the Git
history.
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Test Case Quick Reference

Use comments at the end of the file to indicate metadata about the test case. Here are examples of different kinds of tests:

Compile Error Test

If you want it to be run with zig test and match expected error messages:

// error
// is_test=true
//
// :4:13: error: 'try' outside function scope

Execution

This will do zig run on the code and expect exit code 0.

// run

Translate-c

If you want to test translating C code to Zig use translate-c:

// translate-c
// c_frontend=aro,clang
// target=x86_64-linux
//
// pub const foo = 1;
// pub const immediately_after_foo = 2;
//
// pub const somewhere_else_in_the_file = 3:

Run Translated C

If you want to test translating C code to Zig and then executing it use run-translated-c:

// run-translated-c
// c_frontend=aro,clang
// target=x86_64-linux
//
// Hello world!

Incremental Compilation

Make multiple files that have ".", and then an integer, before the ".zig" extension, like this:

hello.0.zig
hello.1.zig
hello.2.zig

Each file can be a different kind of test, such as expecting compile errors, or expecting to be run and exit(0). The test harness will use these to simulate incremental compilation.

At the time of writing there is no way to specify multiple files being changed as part of an update.

Subdirectories

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Limiting which Backends and Targets are Tested

// run
// backend=stage2,llvm
// target=x86_64-linux,x86_64-macos

Possible backends are:

  • stage1: equivalent to -fstage1.
  • stage2: equivalent to passing -fno-stage1 -fno-LLVM.
  • llvm: equivalent to -fLLVM -fno-stage1.