Add a -D flag to FileCheck to define variables

Summary:
This makes it very easy to test files that only differ in a constant
value somewhere in the test case.

Reviewers: jlebar, hfinkel, chandlerc, probinson

Reviewed By: probinson

Subscribers: probinson, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39629

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@317572 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/utils/FileCheck/FileCheck.cpp b/utils/FileCheck/FileCheck.cpp
index 9d808cc875c..7db97301637 100644
--- a/utils/FileCheck/FileCheck.cpp
+++ b/utils/FileCheck/FileCheck.cpp
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ static cl::list<std::string> ImplicitCheckNot(
              "this pattern occur which are not matched by a positive pattern"),
     cl::value_desc("pattern"));
 
+static cl::list<std::string> GlobalDefines("D", cl::Prefix,
+    cl::desc("Define a variable to be used in capture patterns."),
+    cl::value_desc("VAR=VALUE"));
+
 static cl::opt<bool> AllowEmptyInput(
     "allow-empty", cl::init(false),
     cl::desc("Allow the input file to be empty. This is useful when making\n"
@@ -1295,6 +1299,9 @@ bool CheckInput(SourceMgr &SM, StringRef Buffer,
   /// VariableTable - This holds all the current filecheck variables.
   StringMap<StringRef> VariableTable;
 
+  for (const auto& Def : GlobalDefines)
+    VariableTable.insert(StringRef(Def).split('='));
+
   unsigned i = 0, j = 0, e = CheckStrings.size();
   while (true) {
     StringRef CheckRegion;