[PATCH] gas should honor original section type (was Re: ELF section identification and gld)

[Jan Beulich]

>Unfortunately this patch appears to introduce quite a few new testsuite

>failures in other toolchains.  In particular I found lots of failures
of 
>the new section5 test because it only checks for REL in the output and

>does not include RELA.  (This affected toolchains such as: 
>alpha-linux-gnu and sh-elf).

An obvious oversight.

>Other toolchains had even more difficulties.  The patch introduced 51

>new unexpected failures for GAS tests and 47 new unexpected failures
for 
>LD tests for the mmix-mmixware toolchain.  The mips64-linux toolchain

>had 13 and 15 new unexpected failures respectively, and the 
>sparc64-linux-gnu toolchain has 21 and 9 new failures.
>
>Please could you investigate and resolve these issues and then
resubmit 
>your patch ?

I'll look into these. A general question, though: For changes like this
(in the architecture independent parts), is there any mechanism to
build/test all (default) architectures without having to manually build
them individually?

Thanks, Jan