gas byte test

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri Feb 12 06:27:46 GMT 2021


On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 12:27:05AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, Alan Modra via Binutils wrote:
> 
> > skip *-*-* is a little silly, delete the test.
> > 
> > 	* testsuite/gas/all/byte.d,
> > 	* testsuite/gas/all/byte.l,
> > 	* testsuite/gas/all/byte.s: Delete.
> > 	* testsuite/gas/all/gas.exp: Don't run byte test.
> 
>  But do we have the handling of `.byte " "', etc. actually covered?  It 
> does not appear to me that we do (except for `ppc' and `rx' possibly), so 
> perhaps we should keep the test case actually, and instead examine output 
> produced or at least verify that it assembles?

Perhaps.  At the time, I didn't see the need.  Feel free to add to the
gas quoted-sym-names test.  Don't break it though.  ;-)

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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