ci: :construction_worker: check that examples in header files compile by ion098 · Pull Request #774 · purduesigbots/pros

ion098 · 2025-09-08T18:19:09Z

Summary:

This PR adds a Python script to be ran during CI that isolates all the example code snippets in the include/pros directory and checks that they compile.
~~(Note: this script was partially written by Copilot)~~ The current code doesn't contain any part of the original code which contained code from Copilot

Motivation:

Prevents issues like #760.

Test Plan:

CI passes

ion098 · 2025-09-09T15:38:32Z

@Rocky14683 Can you please run the pipeline?

Rocky14683 · 2025-09-10T01:18:19Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2025-09-10T01:18:31Z

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Updated logging code and regex pattern for code blocks.

ion098 · 2025-09-10T22:17:11Z

@Rocky14683 can you please rerun pipeline?

BennyBot · 2025-09-10T22:36:35Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2025-09-10T22:36:46Z

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

BennyBot · 2025-09-12T03:36:39Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2025-09-12T03:36:50Z

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

BennyBot · 2025-09-12T04:07:06Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2025-09-12T04:07:16Z

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

ion098 · 2025-09-12T20:39:44Z

@BennyBot can you please rerun the pipeline?

BennyBot · 2025-09-12T21:08:17Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2025-09-12T21:08:27Z

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

check_example_code.py

ion098 · 2025-09-15T19:23:00Z

@BennyBot can you please rerun the pipeline?

Rocky14683 · 2025-09-15T19:37:48Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2025-09-15T19:38:00Z

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

djava

this asyncio approach is much cleaner, nice job.

Last request besides what comments i left was just - type hints?

djava · 2025-09-16T14:41:28Z

check_example_code.py

+        "include/main.h",
+        "-std=c++23",
+        "-I", "include",
+        "-D", "_PROS_KERNEL_SUPPRESS_LLEMU_WARNING",


huge nitpick (like, dont bother changing this) but for the record its UB to have any identifier (including macros) that start with underscore then a capital letter lol.

actually idek if you wrote that macro or not but 🤷 just having fun being an asshole by mentioning it

djava · 2025-09-16T14:41:36Z

check_example_code.py


    Args:
        code_text (str): The C/C++ source code to compile.
-        filename (str): The name of the file.


was this remove a mistake?

Yeah, that shouldnt have been removed

djava · 2025-09-16T14:41:45Z

check_example_code.py

+        # Generate assembly (avoids linker errors)
+        "-S",


does the more standard -c not work? if not then probably give a longer comment to explain why youre doing -S because it took me a second for that to click

-c would probably work, but assembling the files seems like an unnecessary step.

Ok, maybe just a better comment - something like Just generate assembly, the further compilation steps are not necessary for this CI check maybe

djava · 2025-09-16T14:41:59Z

check_example_code.py

+        stdout, stderr = await process.communicate(input=code_text.encode("utf-8"))
+        success = (process.returncode == 0)


interesting - where do you await the compilation being done? im not super familiar with this but im confused. does process.communicate() imply blocking to wait for a response? is there a timeout?

Yes, communicate sends input via stdin and then waits for the process to finish running (no timeout though)

ok maybe a comment that says that because its not obvious imo

djava · 2025-09-16T16:29:53Z

check_example_code.py

+        "-x", "c++" if is_cpp else "c",
+        "-std=c++23" if is_cpp else "-std=c2x",
+        # Only need precompiled headers for C++
+        *(("-I", precompiled_include_directory) if is_cpp else ()),


weird syntax trick lol maybe just do it after the list initialization

BennyBot · 2025-09-17T17:47:52Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2025-09-17T17:48:03Z

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

meisZWFLZ · 2025-09-23T23:34:35Z

Some silly notes I had while skimming the code:

Perhaps you could use the compiler flags from the makefile? Likely by adding a make rule to extract the flags
a. This could be applied to other configuration too, like the include directory
Idk how azure pipelines work, but the examples check can be done in parallel to the other checks
Maybe you're already doing this, but you could compile each snippet in parallel
A make rule could be added to run the script
Being able to specify a specific header to test would be useful for development

1 seems like it would be a lot of work, but everything else seems reasonable and justifiable

ion098 · 2025-09-24T17:07:50Z

re @meisZWFLZ

Perhaps you could use the compiler flags from the makefile? Likely by adding a make rule to extract the flags
a. This could be applied to other configuration too, like the include directory

That's probably a good idea in the long run, I didn't implement it because Makefile scares me a little.

Idk how azure pipelines work, but the examples check can be done in parallel to the other checks

Maybe you're already doing this, but you could compile each snippet in parallel

The code compiles everything in parallel using as many cores as possible with asyncio, so I don't think doing both checks in parallel would offer much speedup.

A make rule could be added to run the script

Being able to specify a specific header to test would be useful for development

That seems reasonable, but the script needs a few changes for development use---caching the example code for example, since the script always recompiles every example code snippet right now, which works for ci but makes it painful to repeatedly run during development.

meisZWFLZ · 2025-10-06T20:16:56Z

Do the other checks still run if the example check fails? I would think that would be ideal.

I kinda wonder whether this should be written in the makefile rather than a python script. Might make it a bit easier to implement caching with make rules.

WillXuCodes · 2026-03-31T04:07:53Z

/azp run

azure-pipelines · 2026-03-31T04:08:03Z

Azure Pipelines successfully started running 1 pipeline(s).

ion098 added 3 commits September 8, 2025 11:08

ci: ✅ Add script to check that all example code compiles

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ci: 🐛 fix syntax issues and improve code clarity

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ci: 👷 add step to Azure pipelines to check example code

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ion098 changed the title ~~ci: 👷 check that example code compiles~~ ci: 👷 check that examples in header files compile Sep 9, 2025

fix: 🚧 Add logging to check_example_code.py

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Updated logging code and regex pattern for code blocks.

ci: 🐛 check_example_code actually works now

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ci: 🐛 change C standard from c23 to c2x to work with gcc 13

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ion098 added 2 commits September 12, 2025 16:41

fix: 🚧 fix compiler errors in example code

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ci: ⚡ compile example code snippets in parallel

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djava reviewed Sep 12, 2025

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docs: 🚧 fix compiler errors in example code

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docs: 🚧 fix more compiler errors in examples

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		stdout, stderr = await process.communicate(input=code_text.encode("utf-8"))
		success = (process.returncode == 0)

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