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Re: PATCH for 64-bit MIPS ELF buglets
From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:38:00 -0700
Does GCC's MIPS16 support work? Is there the appropriate GDB
simulation code? Does anyone have recent benchmarks of GCC + MIPS16
to test against? How do you run the GCC testsuite in this situation?
(I assume the usual "make check" doesn't cut it.)
I would be willing to give this a go, if someone gives me clear
directions as to what to do.
When I worked on the mips16 code, almost all the gcc tests passed.
That was a couple of years ago now, though.
gdb does have mips16 simulator support. You just have to configure
for --target mips-elf. `make check' is all you need in gcc. In your
DejaGnu site.exp file, set target_list to mips-sim. You may have to
frob something to get DejaGnu to find the simulator.
I do think we should encourage folks to work on the testsuite thing,
though; running the full GCC testsuite is probably a) too
time-consuming and b) too complicated and c) too dependent on GCC,
rather than purely on binutils to be practical as a regular regression
test for most developers.
I agree. I encourage anyone looking for a project to look into
beefing up the binutils testsuite.
Ian