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If update_test_checks.py
is ran on some lit test that contains a function with large signature and lots of metadata attached to it, all captures will be put in a single line.
For that, FileCheck can fail since it only supports up to 9
backrefs.
What is a feasible way to support such cases?
- Make update_test_checks.py count captures and split the lines containing the arguments into new lines
- Make FileCheck support more than
9
backrefs. The regex engine seems to include a\g<num>
pattern, but it seems to not work here,\{num}
,${num}
and$num
etc. don't work as well (talking about a backref of around 40). Also, this can cause quite a performance regression. - Use named capture groups with unique names to refer to the value of an earlier capture. I am not sure about the perf hit though.
Any ideas? In my opinion, this is nothing the Python update script should handle.