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Re: [testuite patch] Fix cross-arch .S testsuite files compatibility
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:32:06 +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:06:02 +0100, Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:57:11 +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> > > Can there be other semantic differences between the two?
> >
> > It is a good question and I am not aware of any such differences.
>
> Hmm, I just had a quick look, and found that, for example, tc-arm.c has
> this:
>
> #ifdef OBJ_ELF
> { "word", s_arm_elf_cons, 4 },
> { "long", s_arm_elf_cons, 4 },
>
> ... and obj-elf.c:
>
> {"4byte", cons, 4},
>
> Compared to cons, s_arm_elf_cons does quite a lot of things, for example
> handle mapping symbols (which cons doesn't do, I think?).
It does not seem to be needed for these testcases, they still PASS on:
armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf
(I did not verify if they still FAIL->PASS by their specific fixes.)
Thanks,
Jan