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Re: ld test failure on ARM GNU/Linux


   Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:45:39 -0700
   From: Catherine Moore <clm@cygnus.com>

   : > Then the testsuite does not match the test case, and selective.exp
   : > should be fixed.  And the test will presumably start failing when
   : > using gcc 2.95.2 on i386 GNU/Linux.
   : 

     This patch looks reasonable to me.  This test (selective 4) seems to have been
     broken from the beginning.  Unfortunately, it passed on other platforms so
     it's possible that we have a --gc-sections bug for some other target.

I think I'd like to see the test fixed to test for correct behaviour,
even though that means that it will fail on some targets.  The point
of a testsuite is to catch bugs, not to hide them.

Perhaps we should apply Alan's patch to the 2.10 branch, though.

Ian

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