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

[Jan Beulich]

On 17.07.2020 16:29, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 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?

I could, but this being unrelated changes I'd prefer to keep them
separate. Let me know if you really think merging is helpful here.

>> 5: gas: generalize comment character escaping recognition
>> 6: x86: handle SVR4 escaped binary operators
>>
> 
> Patch 6 is OK if patch 5 is approved.

What about 1 and 3?

Jan