FYI: mips tests totally broken if ECOFF.

Eric Christopher echristo@redhat.com
Mon Sep 29 22:59:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:41, cgd@broadcom.com wrote:
> FYI, since May, running the MIPS tests for ECOFF targets
> (e.g. mips-ecoff 8-) is totally broken .
> 
> Looks like back in May, "-32" or similar was added to the assembler
> args for most of the MIPS tests, and ECOFF assemblers don't recognize
> that flag.
> 
> I don't particularly care, but until now when i've been running the
> gas testsuite i've often included mips-ecoff.  (that'll now stop,
> since it no longer produces meaningful results.)  Somebody searching
> the list years from now might wonder, so i thought i'd tell them.  8-)

Oh. Yeah, this has been mentioned periodically. Personally, I don't care
about mips-ecoff. :)

-eric

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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>



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