2.12 branch: Sparc visibility failures

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sun Feb 17 08:05:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:02:55AM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:56:20PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > Is that really working around what the test is supposed to be testing,
> > or is my interpretation correct?  Jakub?
> 
> Your interpretation is correct AFAICS.  Definitely the compiler
> is entitled to make the transformation it does.  I can't see how
> the result could be changed if the test uses the weak attribute
> instead of the asm.

Which leads to the question: what to do?  I can't add __attribute__,
because that's a GCC-ism and I won't be surprised if Sun's compiler
does something similar.  XFAIL for sparc-linux?

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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