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Tests: Have a way to "freeze" the code used when compiling the compiler

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Some of the tests compile (part of) the compiler’s code. When debugging an issue this can be problematic because debugging might involving changing the compiler code, and thus affective the issue we’re trying to fix. It would be nice if we could temporarily freeze the code used in the tests to avoid this. One way to do that would be to make a fresh git clone of dotty somewhere else and run the tests with some option like --tests-src=../dotty-upstream.

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

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SethTisuecommented, Jan 11, 2022

lolcry

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smartercommented, Jan 11, 2022

I’m happy if anyone looks into our test infrastructure at all no matter what they do 😄

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