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Notes on how the HPPA testsuite is organized:

basic.parse -- this directory contains the basic instruction parsing

tests and a simple .stab parsing test.  This would be where you'd

add code to make sure new instructions are parsed correctly, new

completers (such as cache hits) are parsed correctly, etc.

It's also a reasonable place to make sure parsing of the various

assembler directives is handled correctly.  If you're going to add

such code, try to be reasonably complete.  Add test code for each

basic directive and test all (or a noteworthy) subset of arguments.

It should only be necessary to have an assembler to run these tests;

calling objdump_start or something similar should not be done from

this directory.

more.parse -- this is where you should put additional parsing tests, such

as tests to check mode selector parsing, string parsing, expression parsing,

etc.  It's also a reasonable place to put parsing tests which are not complete

enough (whatever that means) for basic.parse.

It should only be necessary to have an assembler to run these tests;

calling objdump_start or something similar should not be done from

this directory.

reloc -- this is where you tests which examine relocations produced

by GAS belong.  To run these tests you must have a functioning objdump.

unsorted -- this is where everything else goes.  As groups of related tests

end up in this directory, they should be broken out into a new class of

tests.