DRuntime development

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This section explains commonly commands which are commonly used to test the low level runtime library for the D programming language.

Run all tests

The entire druntime testsuite can be run with the unittest target:

make -f posix.mak unittest -j4

Run an individual test

Sometimes it can be helpful to rerun only a single test which tests the module or feature one is working on. For example:

make -f posix.mak test/coverage/.run

There are also unittest which have a different behavior when built in debug. To test this, you can set the BUILD mode:

make -f posix.mak test/exceptions/.run BUILD=debug

When you execute the unittest target, unittest-debug and unittest-release are tested.

Run benchmark

If you are making a bigger change or want to improve the performance of a specific function in druntime, you should run the included benchmark script:

rdmd benchmark/runbench.d