Patch for readelf testsuite

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 01:14:04PM +0200, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 09:32:59 +1000 (EST)
> > From: Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>
> 
> > There
> > are quite a few places where we want a "is this target elf?" test, and it
> > would be nice to have just one place to update for odd targets.  Hmm,
> > better yet, why not assemble a tiny file and look for the magic
> > "ELF" string in the object.
> 
> It seems framework pieces for file-format tests like this can be
> recycled from gcc/testsuite/lib/file-format.exp; bits from the
> generic gas testsuite parts could be used for a generic assembly
> file.
> 

I don't like the idea of compiling a pieice of code for each test in
binutils. Binutils has all the information it needs. Someone just has
to spend some time to write it down.


H.J.