Feature

Currently we do not perform any tests on the relocations that the backends emit. While implementing #3026 I struggled with getting the correct output partially because I did not have a good way to check what was being emitted.

Benefit

Testing relocations is obviously desirable to prevent regressions and to ensure we get the correct output.

Implementation

@cfallin has suggested two approaches:

• We perform an end-to-end test with a relocation and execute that on a target platform.
• Print the relocations in the VCode output and compare them against a golden output in the compile filetests

Alternatives

We can keep going as is, but it would be nice if we could test this