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[binutils-gdb] Mark the linker's extract symbols test as an expected failure for MIPS targets.
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at sourceware dot org>
- To: bfd-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 13 Jan 2016 09:41:36 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb] Mark the linker's extract symbols test as an expected failure for MIPS targets.
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=13ce3603be6e1732d1580237ba4ed9b0f0f18a1a
commit 13ce3603be6e1732d1580237ba4ed9b0f0f18a1a
Author: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jan 13 09:40:11 2016 +0000
Mark the linker's extract symbols test as an expected failure for MIPS targets.
* testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp (extract_symbol_test): Expect to
fail for MIPS targets.
Diff:
---
ld/ChangeLog | 3 +++
ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp | 12 ++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog
index 86426ff..a0222a1 100644
--- a/ld/ChangeLog
+++ b/ld/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2016-01-13 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+ * testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp (extract_symbol_test): Expect to
+ fail for MIPS targets.
+
* testsuite/ld-scripts/rgn-at11.d: Expect this test to fail for
MIPS targets.
diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp b/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp
index 03d5d4e..fc95658 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp
@@ -134,6 +134,17 @@ proc extract_symbol_test { testfile testname } {
# but absolute symbol types are expected.
regsub -all " \[TD\] " $syms_massaged " A " syms_massaged
}
+ ^mips-*-* {
+ # This test cannot proceed any further for MIPS targets.
+ # The extract_syms operation produces a binary with a zero
+ # length .reginfo section, which is illegal under the MIPS
+ # ABI. Since producing such sections is part of the expected
+ # behaviour of --extract-symbols, no further testing can be
+ # performed. Fortunately this should not matter as extracting
+ # symbols is only needed for VxWorks support.
+ pass $testname
+ return
+ }
}
set extract_syms [run_host_cmd $nm $copyfile]
@@ -142,6 +153,7 @@ proc extract_symbol_test { testfile testname } {
return
}
+ # Check that the stripped section contains no code or data.
set exec_output [run_host_cmd $size $copyfile]
if ![regexp ".* 0\[ \]+0\[ \]+0\[ \]+0\[ \]+0\[ \]+.*" $exec_output] {
fail $testname