aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/docs/TestingGuide.rst
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorSean Silva <silvas@purdue.edu>2013-03-19 15:22:02 +0000
committerSean Silva <silvas@purdue.edu>2013-03-19 15:22:02 +0000
commit037a4bcde341e7f8546d69a842acbd5129a61f31 (patch)
tree827d046d9808eeeb4990fff15729e3e846aaca9e /docs/TestingGuide.rst
parente9e10d18df7ba3ec65c37eaa25131fbd5c1b130e (diff)
[docs] Remove incorrect information about lit.
Lit does support redirects in the 2>&1 style. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@177403 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/TestingGuide.rst')
-rw-r--r--docs/TestingGuide.rst11
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/TestingGuide.rst b/docs/TestingGuide.rst
index 4d8c8ce307..1fddaa3326 100644
--- a/docs/TestingGuide.rst
+++ b/docs/TestingGuide.rst
@@ -224,16 +224,7 @@ Below is an example of legal RUN lines in a ``.ll`` file:
; RUN: diff %t1 %t2
As with a Unix shell, the RUN lines permit pipelines and I/O
-redirection to be used. However, the usage is slightly different than
-for Bash. In general, it's useful to read the code of other tests to figure out
-what you can use in yours. The major differences are:
-
-- You can't do ``2>&1``. That will cause :program:`lit` to write to a file
- named ``&1``. Usually this is done to get stderr to go through a pipe. You
- can do that with ``|&`` so replace this idiom:
- ``... 2>&1 | FileCheck`` with ``... |& FileCheck``
-- You can only redirect to a file, not to another descriptor and not
- from a here document.
+redirection to be used.
There are some quoting rules that you must pay attention to when writing
your RUN lines. In general nothing needs to be quoted. :program:`lit` won't