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Re: Running gas and ld test suites remotely.
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: jitendra at linsyssoft dot com
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:53:16 +0000
- Subject: Re: Running gas and ld test suites remotely.
- References: <1107241354.3619.14.camel@ind.linsyssoft.com>
Hi Jitendra,
> I am using powerpc as machine and my host machine is x86.
Have you considered using a powerpc simulator running on the x86 host as
an alternative test environment ? This definitely works.
I want to use ssh for session
protocol and scp for transfer protocol. I have successfully run binutils
test suite remotely but gas and ld test suites runs only on host for the
similar configurations as binutils.
Do you mean that the GAS executable you have runs on the x86 host and
produces ppc object files, or that it runs on the remote powerpc machine
and produces native object files ? In the former case there really is
no advantage to taking the created object file, downloading it to the
test machine, then uploading it back to the host so that objdump can be
run on it. ie - the GAS testsuite does not check to see if *working*
executables can be created. All it does is check to see if assembler
source files will assemble to certain expected binary patterns. There
is no need for an execution environment for the GAS testsuite - nothing
is ever executed.
Cheers
Nick