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Re: [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: "Richard Earnshaw (lists)" <Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com>, Thomas Preudhomme <thomas dot preudhomme at foss dot arm dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 09:50:34 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu
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Hi Richard,

>>> Old tests that failed, that have disappeared: (Eeek!)
>>
>> Wow!  Maybe somebody at ARM (hint hint) would like to go through
>> these tests and add a missing -mcpu or -march option ?

> No, they're supposed to test autodetection.  Autodetection doesn't work
> when there's a default CPU.  You can't really fix the tests for that.

Would it be possible to create a proc that checks to see if autodetection
is working (or not needed because DEFAULT_CPU has been specified), and 
skip the failing tests if it is not ?

Cheers
  Nick

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu
  - From: Thomas Preudhomme

References:
- [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu
  - From: Thomas Preudhomme
- Re: [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu
  - From: Thomas Preudhomme
- Re: [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu
  - From: Nick Clifton
- Re: [PATCH, GAS/ARM] Fix selected_cpu with default CPU and -mcpu
  - From: Richard Earnshaw (lists)

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