Patch for IA64 gas testsuite failure

James E Wilson wilson@specifixinc.com
Thu May 26 07:15:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 10:18, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> When using readelf with --sym, HP-UX
> complains that it is an ambigous option.  It is interesting that only
> HP-UX and not Linux considers --sym to be ambigious.

This appears to be a feature of the linux getopt_long implementation. 
It treats two options as ambiguous only if they have different field
values in the struct option array.  Whereas HPUX treats multiple matches
as ambiguous regardless of the field values.

> 	gas/ia64/global.d: Change --sym to --syms.

I checked this in for you.
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com




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