New (APX related) assembler testsuite failures

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 6:35 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> On 19.01.2024 15:32, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Hi Cui, Hi Jan,
> >
> >    I am seeing two new failures in the gas testsuite:
> >
> > FAIL: x86_64 APX_F EVEX-Promoted insns
> > FAIL: x86_64 APX_F EVEX-Promoted insns (Intel disassembly)
> >
> >    These only occur in x86_64 toolchains configured for PE targets
> >    (eg x86_64-pc-mingw64) and are happening because these targets
> >    pad out code sections in order to allow for section alignment.
> >    The testsuite log shows:
> >
> > extra lines in tmpdir/dump.out starting with "^ b8c:  90                      nop$"
> > EOF from /work/sources/binutils/upstream/current/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86-64-apx-evex-promoted-intel.d
> >
> >    Could you take a look and maybe tweak something please ?
>
> I'll deal with that on Monday. I'm surprised though, as I thought I
> had sorted such already. But it must have been some other testcase
> then ...
>
> Jan

I pushed the fix into master branch and backported it to
binutils-2_42-branch.

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H.J.