New ARM testsuite failures
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Thu Nov 29 12:26:00 GMT 2018
Hi Andre,
>> No good deed goes unpunished ;)
So true. So true. :-)
> This left me stuck though because:
> 1) I don't understand why it matters if a target is ELF or not when
> making this transformation, I heard it might be because of some non-elf
> targets having to perform state changes in a slightly different manner?
I think that it is because with non-ELF targets you cannot tell if a label
is a function entry point or some other kind of branch destination.
> 2) Should arm-netbsdelf and/or arm-nto be 'elf'? Specially the first
> lead me to think yes, as for the second I have no idea.
Yes and yes. (NTO is a form of ELF format used by QNX RTOS). [Aargh acronym overload!]
Cheers
Nick
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