[PATCH 4/4] Revert "Arm: correct macro use in gas testsuite"

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 11:33:15 GMT 2024


On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 4:23 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> On 14.08.2024 18:54, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > This reverts commit cfa18744d435b55bbbbc5ef1ae1df67e84aa1777.
> >
> > commit 6ae8a30d44f016cafb46a75843b5109316eb1996
> > Author: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> > Date:   Fri Aug 9 11:59:31 2024 +0200
> >
> >     gas: have scrubber retain more whitespace
> >
> > has been reverted to fix PR gas/32073.
>
> This is the one I said should rather stay in any event. Even for the
> other three (plus a fourth one that you didn't revert) my earlier
> indication was that they _may_ want reverting, not that they need to
> be reverted right away. I think we first want to have a clear picture
> on what the new behavior is going to be. After all it's quite
> possible that for ambiguous cases we will warn people (e.g. telling
> to better switch to comma-separated arguments).
>
> Plus, if I may ask: Who did approve these going in? I think reverts
> can hardly ever count as "obvious".
>

Many assembler testcases came from real usages.  Make working
testcases as error will potentially break existing applications.   These
tests shouldn't be changed to begin with.

-- 
H.J.


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