This doesn't reduce the quality of tests, because the flags are still
printed for declarations themselves. We only omit them in references.
However, this makes the tests more compatible with non-JVM backends
(see KT-58605), because flags of referenced stdlib declarations may
differ among target platforms.
The reason #1 for this feature is that we want to test IdSignatures
generated for declarations. Currently, there is no (easy) way to ensure
that a change in the signature building logic doesn't cause any breaking
changes wrt klibs.
Now, most IdSignatures include hashed mangled names in them, so even if
we catch a regression where the included hash changes, there would be no
way of knowing immediately what caused it, unless we'd also have mangled
names in the expectations.
The reason #2 is to test the manglers themselves. Currently, there are
no tests for them. They heavily duplicate each other, this is already
causing issues (see KT-57427) that would be very hard to catch without
these tests.
^KT-58238 Fixed
We've muted some irText tests on JS in the previous commits because
test expectations in some tests are different when targeting JS.
AbstractKlibJsTextTestCase tests use a different logic:
they compare the dump of the deserialized IR with the frontend-generated
IR, not with the expectations in text files, thus muted tests weren't
actually failing.
Here we introduce a temporary fix, namely
a separate // IGNORE directive for klib tests.
When klib tests are moved to the new test infrastructure, there will be
no need to do this.
Sergej Jaskiewicz