Re: Making generic ld testcases pass on more targets

[Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:14:09PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >+#ifdef BFD_ASSEMBLER
> >+  {"dc.a", cons, 0},
> >+#endif
> 
> I like this, but why make the pseudo specific to BFD_ASSEMBLERs ?

Because only BFD_ASSEMBLER has arch_info.

> >+      nbytes = (stdoutput->arch_info->bits_per_address - 1) / 8;
> 
> It might make sense to allow for individual targets to override this 
> computation with their own value if they so wish.

Yes, that would allow non-BFD_ASSEMBLER to use dc.a too.

Another approach occurred to me also, a variation on using
__address_size.  Instead of the assembler providing the symbol, we could
have the test harness feed a suitable --defsym to the assembler, chosen
by target name.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre