Sanity check on ARM BE8 patch

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon Jun 30 21:04:00 GMT 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:41:58AM -0700, Stan Shebs wrote:
> I have a patch that makes ARM BE8 format (bigendian, but code is  
> littleendian) disassemble correctly, but even though the patch only  
> affects opcodes/ and objdump, the most straightforward place to add a  
> test is in the ld testsuite, because only the linker can create the files 
> via --be8,  no way to get be8 .o files out of gas.  So I just wanted to 
> check that adding an ld test actually seemed sensible before I started to 
> write it.

Seems reasonable to me - it will simultaneously test the --be8 linker
option.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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