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Re: [PATCH] MIPS gas/ld test suite portability fixes
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips dot org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:30:53 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS gas/ld test suite portability fixes
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0502221612240.20174@perivale.mips.com>
On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:22:01PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It's generally unsafe to assume the default MIPS arch type will work for
> NewABI tests (although it may happen to be the case with the targets that
> currently enable them). For example we get several failures with our SDE
> toolchain if we configure it for mipsisa32-*. I think it shouldn't hurt
> to specify a compatible arch explicitly.
>
> We get failures due to a different alignment of sections, too. Finally
> one of the ld cases omits emulation specification, which may also lead to
> a failure.
Adding an emulation will break the test on mips-sgi-irix6, which uses
different emulation names (and doesn't include the "traditional"
emulations). jalbal used to pass on IRIX 6.
Not that I much care about the IRIX test results. They're too much a
mess right now to be useful.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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