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Re: [PATCH] gas should honor original section type (was Re:ELF section identification and gld)
- From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich at novell dot com>
- To: <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>,<ian at wasabisystems dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:44:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] gas should honor original section type (was Re:ELF section identification and gld)
>Unfortunately this patch appears to introduce quite a few new testsuite
>failures in other toolchains. In particular I found lots of failures
of
>the new section5 test because it only checks for REL in the output and
>does not include RELA. (This affected toolchains such as:
>alpha-linux-gnu and sh-elf).
An obvious oversight.
>Other toolchains had even more difficulties. The patch introduced 51
>new unexpected failures for GAS tests and 47 new unexpected failures
for
>LD tests for the mmix-mmixware toolchain. The mips64-linux toolchain
>had 13 and 15 new unexpected failures respectively, and the
>sparc64-linux-gnu toolchain has 21 and 9 new failures.
>
>Please could you investigate and resolve these issues and then
resubmit
>your patch ?
I'll look into these. A general question, though: For changes like this
(in the architecture independent parts), is there any mechanism to
build/test all (default) architectures without having to manually build
them individually?
Thanks, Jan