status of gold for ARM

[Cary Coutant]

Roland,

I've asked Doug Kwan to take a look. He thinks that the tests need to
be fixed to accommodate changes in alignment.

-cary


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Roland McGrath <mcgrathr@google.com> wrote:
> I'm building binutils for --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf (build and host
> is x86_64-linux-gnu, though I hope that doesn't matter to these questions).
>
> At binutils-2_25 (the release tag), check-gold passes (18 tests).
> At current binutils-2_25-branch (3654ad9), check-gold fails (2 of 18
> tests failed):
>         FAIL: arm_cortex_a8.sh
>         FAIL: arm_branch_out_of_range.sh
> At current master (946748d), check-gold fails (4 of 18 tests failed):
>         FAIL: arm_branch_out_of_range.sh
>         FAIL: arm_fix_v4bx.sh
>         FAIL: arm_cortex_a8.sh
>         FAIL: arm_unaligned_reloc.sh
>
> Is anybody looking at these?
>
> There had been mention of doing a 2.25.1 release sometime soon.
> Can at least the 2.25 branch regressions since the 2.25 release get
> fixed soon?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Roland