Re: mips-elf regressions

[Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> (Locals must be before Weaks and Weaks must be before Globals  
> according to gabi).
> As a consequence the output don't match the expected result.

Well according to elf32-mips.c, this is expected:

/* Determine whether a symbol is global for the purposes of splitting
   the symbol table into global symbols and local symbols.  At least
   on Irix 5, this split must be between section symbols and all other
   symbols.  On most ELF targets the split is between static symbols
   and externally visible symbols.  */

static bfd_boolean
mips_elf_sym_is_global (bfd *abfd ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, asymbol *sym)
{
  if (SGI_COMPAT (abfd))
    return (sym->flags & BSF_SECTION_SYM) == 0;
  else
    return ((sym->flags & (BSF_GLOBAL | BSF_WEAK)) != 0
	    || bfd_is_und_section (bfd_get_section (sym))
	    || bfd_is_com_section (bfd_get_section (sym)));
}

As SGI_COMPAT is true, this looks to be expected.

Can someone confirm this ?
If so, shouldn't we update the status of the failing tests (either  
disabling them on mips-elf or marking
them as xfail) ?

Tristan.