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Tracking Issue for compiletest directive handling bugs and papercuts

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Description

This is a tracking issue to collect bugs and papercuts related to compiletest directive handling (incl. parsing/syntax, error reporting, validation and actual wiring up to how tests get run). This is explicitly not for feature requests like negative ui error annotations.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is identified in the issue. First review the compiletest directive-handling area and the specific bugs or papercuts collected in this tracker; work is done only after one concrete problem is scoped and its parsing, reporting, validation, or test-running behavior is corrected.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
compilers, testing
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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