PATCH: Support ia64-hpux in binutils

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 07:37:05PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, H. J. Lu wrote:
> >
> > > I will check in this patch shortly for ia64-hpux.
> > As obvious, I presume?  I won't comment further on the obviousness, but:
> >
> > Unlike the ld testsuite, the readelf tests don't link files, so
> > the targets that assemble to ELF but link to another format are
> > needlessly left out, like mmix-knuth-mmixware.  Right, not
> > changed by this patch, I just happened to spot it.
> >
> > The is_elf_format proc also seems a bit misnamed; the _format
> > part makes me think a file is tested rather than a target.  I
> > suggest two procs: is_elf_obj_target (applies only where a REL
> > file is tested) and is_elf_ld_target (where a DYN or EXEC file
> > is tested).  Comments?
>
> If ld is not used/tested in binutils tests, why bother with
> is_elf_ld_target?

You misread.  I wrote *readelf* tests not *binutils* tests.

> You can just add mmix-knuth-mmixware to
> is_elf_format if it is appropriate.

I can't.  REL format is ELF; EXEC format is mmo.  The point is
that I don't want to miss out on the binutils/ tests that just
use the assembler.  (Points explained twice, thread now over.)

brgds, H-P