Feature/Re route validation tests

[figueroa1395]

Re-route the validation tests through the C API:

• Move the call for the tests to the C++ wrapper of the C API.
• Remove the PGM core dependencies.

Re-route the benchmarks through the C API:
- [ ] Move the call for the benchmark to the C++ wrapper of the C API.
- [ ] Remove the PGM core dependencies.

Note: The re-routing of the benchmark won't be addressed here anymore, since it requieres more effort than initially anticipated. For the moment, it is taken out of the CI build and addressed on the nightly build #736

Closes #486

[TonyXiang8787]

@figueroa1395 should the name of this PR be changed to only re-route validation tests?

[figueroa1395]

@figueroa1395 should the name of this PR be changed to only re-route validation tests?

PR edited accordingly.

[figueroa1395]

Since I have started working on this PR again, this is very outdated at the moment. Many things have and will keep changing.

[figueroa1395]

At this stage all the single validation tests have been migrated to the Cpp API and pass. Next I will fix the batch validation.

[TonyXiang8787]

@figueroa1395 you need to resolve merge conflict, otherwise the CI will not start.

[figueroa1395]

@TonyXiang8787 Thanks, I did not know. I am doing a bit of refactoring and once I finish that, I will solve the conflict.

[mgovers]

great progress. will review the rest on monday when you're done cleaning up

[figueroa1395]

The only things remaining at this point are doing a full manual clang tidy run and figuring out what is going on with the MacOS build.

[TonyXiang8787]

The only things remaining at this point are doing a full manual clang tidy run and figuring out what is going on with the MacOS build.

@figueroa1395 @mgovers
After debugging in my Mac I have found the bug. The std::aligned_alloc has two requirements for unix-like system which we did not enforce:

• Alignment should be multiple of sizeof(void*)
• Size should be multiple of alignment

I have now pushed the fix.

[figueroa1395]

@TonyXiang8787 Thanks! Great find and fix.

[Jerry-Jinfeng-Guo]

Couple minor comments.

[mgovers]

halfway through the review. continuing now but then you can already process what i have so far

[sonarqubecloud]

Quality Gate passed

Issues
6 New issues
0 Accepted issues

Measures
0 Security Hotspots
100.0% Coverage on New Code
0.0% Duplication on New Code

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[TonyXiang8787]

I see no open points and therefore approve the PR.

Feel free to put it in the merge queue.