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Re: fixup arm ld tests
- From: Matthew Gretton-Dann <matthew dot gretton-dann at arm dot com>
- To: Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:28:23 +0100
- Subject: Re: fixup arm ld tests
- References: <4C88CAE0.5000908@codesourcery.com>
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:54 +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> This patch fixes up a bunch of arm linker tests that were failing. The tests
> are quite sensitive to .plt and .got placement, and the base addresses appear to
> have moved due to other linker changes, I guess.
>
> In several cases I was able to make the test less sensitive, by relaxing regexps
> appropriately. for instance we often only care about relative displacement, and
> that is captured in the instruction encoding and also symbol name, so the
> absolute address can be ignored.
>
> built and tested for arm-none-linux-gnueabi, ok?
I do not see these failures when targetting arm-none-eabi [x86 host] or
arm-none-linux-gnueabi [arm-none-linux-gnueabi host] (with current
HEAD). Applying your patch causes the tests you modify to fail.
What environment are you in when you see the failures?
Thanks,
Matt
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Matthew Gretton-Dann
Principal Engineer - PDSW Tools
ARM Ltd