SPIRV-Tools/test/diff/diff_files/README.md
Shahbaz Youssefi 7fa9e746ef
Introduce spirv-diff (#4611)
spirv-diff is a new tool that produces diff-style output comparing two
SPIR-V modules.  The instructions between the src and dst modules are
matched as best as the tool can, and output is produced (in src
id-space) that shows which instructions are removed in src, added in dst
or modified between them.  The order of instructions are not retained.

Matching instructions between two SPIR-V modules is not trivial, and
thus a number of heuristics are applied in this tool.  In particular,
without debug information, it's hard to match functions as they can be
reordered.  As such, this tool is primarily useful to produce the diff
of two SPIR-V modules derived from the same source.

This tool can be useful in a number of scenarios:

- Compare the SPIR-V before and after modifying a shader
- Compare the SPIR-V produced from a shader before and after compiler
  codegen changes.
- Compare the SPIR-V produced from a shader before and after some
  transformation or optimization.
- Compare the SPIR-V produced from a shader with different compilers.
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Diff tests

This directory contains files used to ensure correctness of the spirv-diff implementation. The generate_tests.py script takes name_src.spvasm and name_dst.spvasm (for each name) and produces unit test files in the form of name_autogen.cpp.

The unit test files test the diff between the src and dst inputs, as well as between debug-stripped versions of those. Additionally, based on the {variant}_TESTS lists defined in generate_tests.py, extra unit tests are added to exercise different options of spirv-diff.

New tests are added simply by placing a new name_src.spvasm and name_dst.spvasm pair in this directory and running generate_tests.py. Note that this script needs the path to the spirv-diff executable that is built.

The generate_tests.py script additionally expects name_src.spvasm to include a heading where the purpose of the test is explained. This heading is parsed as a block of lines starting with ;; at the top of the file.