[PATCH] PR ld/19636: [x86] Resolve undefweak and defined symbols in executable
Ramana Radhakrishnan
ramana.gcc@googlemail.com
Wed Mar 2 13:34:00 GMT 2016
>
> Well, then why you put it under generic directory? and without restricting
> it
> on x86?
Hang on Jiong - seeing the failure on other targets is fine -
technically other targets need to know if they are broken or not, the
best way of getting attention is a FAIL.
regards
Ramana
>
> IMO, the support of weak symbol under various rare and complex scenarios are
> very
> target specific, thus I'd either move this testcase under x86 directory or
> put it under
> generic directory but enabling it on x86 only initially. If other targets
> want and start
> to support similar features like x86 on weak symbol, then they can be
> enabled seperately.
> This looks to me is a more clean & acceptable way to other targets.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Regards,
> Jiong
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