MIPS gas is broken now.
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl
Mon Sep 2 09:34:00 GMT 2002
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> I don't think an erraneous test failure which lead to this patch
> going in is "handy". The test we are talking about fails for any
> 32 bit only MIPS ELF target, and none of these has a use for
> embedded PIC.
Well, if a particular test fails because is erroneous or irrelevant, it
should get fixed or disabled respectively, indeed. But valid tests
should remain.
> > It would be annoying to me if I had
> > to build a separate configuration just to be able to execute embedded PIC
> > tests
>
> Several of the tastcases in the gas testsuite are already target
> dependent (IMHO for good reason). Are you annoyed by these?
No, that's OK. But if they are target-specific, it means I won't have a
chance to hit them unless I work on some code for the particular target.
> > (or any other tests for non-disabled code, actually).
>
> Maybe embedded PIC should be disabled for targets which have no
> use for it.
No opinion.
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