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

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Guys,

>>>From: binutils-owner On Behalf Of Jan Beulich
>>>(in the architecture independent parts), is there any mechanism to
>>>build/test all (default) architectures without having to 
>>>manually build them individually?

As has already been said the only real mechanism to test the 
architecture independent parts of the tools is the brute force approach 
- build and check as many different targets as you can and look for 
regressions.


> Alan Modra wrote:
> I use the following script
> 
> for z in a29k-coff alpha-linuxecoff alpha-linux arc-elf arm-aout arm-coff arm-linux avr-elf cris-elf d10v-elf d30v-elf dlx-elf fr30-elf frv-elf hppa-linux hppa64-linux h8300-rtems h8300-elf h8500-rtems i370-linux i586-coff i586-aout i586-linux i686-pe i860-stardent-elf i960-intel-nindy i960-coff i960-elf ia64-linux ip2k-elf m32r-elf m68hc11-elf m68hc12-elf m68k-aout m68k-netbsd m68k-coff m68k-linux m88k-coff mcore-elf mcore-pe mips-ecoff mips-linux mmix mn10200-elf mn10300-elf openrisc-elf or32-coff or32-elf pj-elf powerpc-linux powerpc64-linux rs6000-aix4.3.3 rs6000-aix5.1 s390x-linux s390-linux sh-linux sh-pe sh-rtems sh64-elf ns32k-netbsd sparc-aout sparc-coff sparc-linux sparc64-linux tic30-unknown-aout tic30-unknown-coff tic4x-coff tic54x-coff tic80-coff v850-elf vax-netbsdelf vax-netbsd vax-vms w65-unknown-coff x86_64-linux xstormy16-elf z8k-coff

Interesting script.  I use makefiles myself but to a similar effect. 
There were several targets in your list which I was not testing, so I 
have added them to my framework.  I also noticed that your list does not 
include these targets which you might want to add: crx-elf, iq2000-elf, 
msp430-elf and xtensa-elf.

Cheers
   Nick