[PATCH 1/4] GAS: Permit the reuse of dump patterns

Richard Sandiford rdsandiford@googlemail.com
Wed Jul 21 18:57:00 GMT 2010


"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com> writes:
>  This is a change to add support for the "dump" option to run_dump_test().  
> This lets one specify an alternative .d file providing regexp patterns for 
> the test output to match against, typically another .d file that differs 
> by the options used only.  Options for the current test are retrieved from 
> ${file}.d as usually, which is also the default when no "dump" has been 
> specified.  This is useful in multi-arch testing, saving the need to keep 
> an exact copy of the patterns used for each subarchitecture and to update 
> all of them whenever anything changes.
>
> 2010-07-20  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@codesourcery.com>
>
> 	gas/testsuite/
> 	* lib/gas-defs.exp (run_dump_test): Handle the "dump" option.

Nice!  OK to install, thanks.

Richard



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