Re: [2.11 branch]: Failures for armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu

[Manfred Hollstein <manfred dot h at gmx dot net>]

On Friday, 2 February 2001, 21:34:54 +0000, philb@gnu.org wrote:

> >regexp_diff match failure
> >regexp "^00000260 <[^>]*> ebfffffe ?	bl	00000000 <[^>]*>$"
> >line   "00000260 <bar+0x50> ebfffffe 	bl	00000260 <bar+0x50>"
> 
> This looks like some kind of dejagnu lossage.  It seems to be picking up your 
> old, installed objdump rather than the newly built one in the tree.

No. This is from gas.log after a similar testrun today:

Running /home/gnu/work/GNU/binutils-2.11/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/arm.exp ...
../as-new  -marm2 -EL -o dump.o /home/gnu/work/GNU/binutils-2.11/gas/testsuite/gas/arm/inst.s
/home/gnu/work/GNU/binutils-2.11-armv4l-unknown-linux-gnu/gas/testsuite/../../binutils/objdump  -dr --prefix-addresses --show-raw-insn dump.o > dump.out
regexp_diff match failure
regexp "^00000260 <[^>]*> ebfffffe ?	bl	00000000 <[^>]*>$"
line   "00000260 <bar+0x50> ebfffffe 	bl	00000260 <bar+0x50>"
regexp_diff match failure
regexp "^00000264 <[^>]*> 5bfffffe ?	blpl	00000000 <[^>]*>$"
line   "00000264 <bar+0x54> 5bfffffe 	blpl	00000264 <bar+0x54>"
regexp_diff match failure
regexp "^00000268 <[^>]*> eafffffe ?	b	00000000 <[^>]*>$"
line   "00000268 <bar+0x58> eafffffe 	b	00000268 <bar+0x58>"
regexp_diff match failure
regexp "^0000026c <[^>]*> dafffffe ?	ble	00000000 <[^>]*>$"
line   "0000026c <bar+0x5c> dafffffe 	ble	0000026c <bar+0x5c>"
FAIL: ARM basic instructions

As you can see, it's using the objdump program from my builddir.

> I've managed to reproduce the symptom here, but not consistently.

Hmm.

> The output you're seeing from objdump does seem to be the correct version.  
> This was the patch that changed the behaviour; I'm not totally sure I agree 
> with it, but that's a different matter.
> 
> 2001-01-09  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* arm-dis.c (print_insn): Set pc to zero for instructions with
> 	a reloc associated with them.

So, does this mean, Nick changed the sources, but forgot to fix the
test cases accordingly?

> 
> p.
> 

Cheers.

l8er
manfred.