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Re: Minor PA GAS testsuite fix


On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:14:23AM -0700, law@redhat.com wrote:
>   > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 09:20:25AM -0500, law@redhat.com wrote:
>   > > 
>   > > The line separator test is expected to fail on PA platforms.
>   > > 
>   > > 	* gas/hppa/parse/parse.exp: Expect failure on line separator bug.
>   > 
>   > Huh?
>   > 
>   > Running /src/binutils-current/gas/testsuite/gas/hppa/parse/parse.exp ...
>   > PASS: line separator bug
> The problem here is that the test in the net tree was incorrectly changed
> (by moving around some whitespace).  That change masked the underlying
> bug in gas.  The line separator test still fails if it's returned to its
> original form:
> 
>         .WORD 0 !.IMPORT $bar$,DATA
> 
> 
> I'm restoring the test to its original form so that we don't falsely believe
> that the line separator actually works in a manner that is consistent with
> the HP assembler's behavior.

No, what you've done in removing the whitespace before the .import, is
turn it into a label.  hppa defines LABELS_WITHOUT_COLONS.  Please put
the test back as it was, and remove the xfail.

Alan


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