RFC: Allow the suppression of expensive linker and gas tests

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, Ben Elliston wrote:
> If the testsuite takes too long to run, then let's address that by
> scaling back the magnitude of the worst offending test cases.  I don't
> think giving us the means to produce sets of test results that are not
> directly comparable is the right approach.

No, this can't be done for the sec64k tests, you need 64k 
sections to test them.  I'm much less bothered by the option of 
not running the test, than to somehow run a scaled down version; 
it'd then serve no purpose.

brgds, H-P