[PATCH 0/6] x86: misc testsuite reverts plus fallout thereof

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 6:30 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> Over time a number of choices I've made in testcases have been
> "corrected", because of causing problems for certain targets.
> The underlying issues, however, were never investigated. I've
> finally taken the time to do so in two of the cases, which
> interestingly has lead to fixing long-standing yet at the first
> glance unrelated bugs (or shortcomings, if you like).
>
> Note that patch 5 is a change to common gas code; I'll try to
> remember to Cc a few presumably relevant people when sending
> out that one.
>
> 1: x86: enable more ELF tests for VxWorks
> 2: Revert "x86: Replace evex-no-scale.s with evex-no-scale-[32|64].s"
> 3: x86: honor absolute section when emitting code
> 4: x86: revert ELF related part of "x86: Update assembler tests for non-ELF targets"

Can you merge patches 2 and 4 into a single commit since they
change the same file?

> 5: gas: generalize comment character escaping recognition
> 6: x86: handle SVR4 escaped binary operators
>

Patch 6 is OK if patch 5 is approved.

Thanks.

-- 
H.J.