[PATCH 1/3] binutils/testsuite: Enable strip-13 test for `hppa*-*'

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:57 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com> wrote:
>> Based on relocations defined in include/elf/*.h files we have relocation
>> numbers: 143, 159, 214 and 215 currently not used by any of our ELF
>> targets.  Use 143 then instead of 241 to enable the `strip-13' test for
>> `hppa*-*' targets.  It has a side effect with some targets of verifying
>> that unused relocations whose numbers are below the respective R_*_max
>> value are handled correctly.
>>
>>         binutils/
>>         * testsuite/binutils-all/strip-13.s: Use 143 (0x8f) rather than
>>         241 (0xf1) for the relocation number and RELA addend.
>>         * testsuite/binutils-all/strip-13.d: Remove `hppa*-*' from the
>>         `not-target' list.
>> ---
>> Hi,
>>
>>  As previously discussed this causes an issue with x86-64 targets and the
>> R_X86_64_converted_reloc_bit bit added with commit 78984959cb38 ("x86-64:
>> Add R_X86_64_converted_reloc_bit"), resulting in a test regression.  This
>> is a bug in the x86-64 target backend, acknowledged by H.J.
>>
>
> I will deal with x86 regressions.
>

I am testing this patch.


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H.J.
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