mips-elf regressions

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Wed Oct 8 10:19:00 GMT 2008


On Oct 8, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Alan Modra wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:50:55AM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:29 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>> (Locals must be before Weaks and Weaks must be before Globals
>>> according to gabi).
>
> Not quite.  Locals before others, weaks and globals are not ordered.

Right, I read too quickly.

>> As SGI_COMPAT is true, this looks to be expected.
>>
>> Can someone confirm this ?
>
> Yes.  Although I don't really see a need to break the ELF standard
> when there are no global section symbols.

Aren't section symbols always local ?  If so we could also classify  
symbols
into section symbols, local and non-local (thought for a future  
improvement).

>> If so, shouldn't we update the status of the failing tests (either
>> disabling them on mips-elf or marking
>> them as xfail) ?
>
> xfail.

Ok.  Thank you for your quick reply.

Tristan.



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