PR27259, SHF_LINK_ORDER self-link

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 03:06:21PM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:00 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 03:04:29PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > > Hi H.J.
> > >
> > >   [Sorry - only just found this email in my queue]
> > >
> > > > I am checking in this testcase.  Shouldn't this patch be backported to
> > > > 2.35 and 2.36 branches?
> > >
> > > Please backport to both branches.
> >
> > Done.  Not the testcase though, I don't believe it is appropriate to
> > backport new testcases.
> >
> 
> Testcases can verify that bugs are fixed and stay fixed.

Yes, that's good for mainline.  Not so much for a release branch where
we don't expect much activity.  You don't want to introduce spurious
fails on release branches due to insufficient testing of new
testcases.  Like this one.
msp430-elf  +FAIL: ld-elf/pr27259

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM