assert() in paramgrill are not in the benchmark path.
They should remain active, as they don't impact measurements, and their runtime is insignificant.
from zstreamtest.
This test is now integrated within --newapi,
which dynamically switches between the 2 modes randomly.
The main outcome is reduced testing time.
There were 2 competing set of debug functions
within zstd_internal.h and bitstream.h.
They were mostly duplicate, and required care to avoid messing with each other.
There is now a single implementation, shared by both.
Significant change :
The macro variable ZSTD_DEBUG does no longer exist,
it has been replaced by DEBUGLEVEL,
which required modifying several source files.
ensure that, when frequency[symbol]==0,
result is (tableLog + 1) bits
with both upper-bit and fractional-bit estimates.
Also : enable BIT_DEBUG in /tests
Recipe in /tests rebuild everything from source for each target.
zstd is still a "small" project, so it's not prohibitive,
yet, rebuilding same files over and over represents substantial redundant work.
This patch replaces *.c files from /lib by their corresponding *.o files.
They cannot be compiled and stored directly within /lib,
since /tests triggers additional debug capabilities unwelcome in release binary.
So the resulting *.o are stored directly within /tests.
It turns out, it's difficult to find several target using *exactly* the same rules.
Using only the default rules (debug enabled, multi-threading disabled, no legacy)
a surprisingly small amount of targets share their work.
It's because, in many cases there are additional modifications requested :
some targets are 32-bits, some enable multi-threading, some enable legacy support,
some disable asserts, some want different kind of sanitizer, etc.
I created 2 sets of object files : with and without multithreading.
Several targets share their work, saving compilation time when running `make all`.
Also, obviously, when modifying one source file, only this one needs rebuilding.
For targets requiring some different setting, build from source *.c remain the rule.
The new rules have been tested within `-j` parallel compilation, and work fine with it.
- building cli from /tests preserves potential flags in MOREFLAGS (such as asan/usan)
- MT dictionary tests check for MT capability (MT is not enabled by default for zstd32)
-ftrapv is apparently buggy for gcc.
versions >= 5 are supposed to work better,
but even then, some complaints say it's still flaky when optimizations are enabled.
I even saw a post saying it only works if one creates its own signal handler,
which would make this flag no longer transparent.
on clang, it seems to work correctly.
But we would need to add a method to selectively add flags depending on compiler.
That's too much troubles for the intended benefit
(just catch integer overflows, which we can also do using ubsan).
Rohit Jain
Yann Collet
Nick Terrell
George Lu
cyan4973
Yann Collet
Ryan Schmidt
W. Felix Handte
Stella Lau