[PATCH v2 1/3] cris/testsuite: don't use --em=

[Jan Beulich]

On 25.06.2025 07:46, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:35:41 +0200
>> Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> 
>> On 25.06.2025 07:28, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>>>> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 07:22:12 +0200
>>>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>>>
>>>> On 24.06.2025 19:21, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>>>>> BTW, speaking of gas e8s, wrt. CRIS: I don't mind if e8s
>>>>> support is dropped completely, as long as --emulation=<arg>
>>>>> (or --emulation=crisaout for cris-aout and
>>>>> --emulation=criself for the rest) is kept as a compatibility
>>>>> option.
>>>>
>>>> I have to confess that I have no clue what "e8s" is. I can find no
>>>> instance of such a spelling of an option (or alike).
>>>
>>> From the top of my reply to which you replied:
>>>
>>>>> (Aw...but emulations is such a long word that I'll
>>>>> abbreviate it "e8s". 1/2 :-)
>>
>> I'm confused, I guess. This sounded to me like there is something already,
>> since "if ... is dropped completely" didn't quite leave room for it being
>> something that's only to be introduced.
> 
> Sorry, now it's me that's confused: emulations is there
> "already"; the abbreviation of that option is what you
> tweak.  Nothing is "introduced".

Oh, I thought you meant to introduce an alias option --e8s.

> Let's start over; I'll rephrase:
> 
> Speaking of emulations, if Someone thinks that gas
> emulations is too much of a maintenance burden, then I don't
> oppose removing it, provided that NOP compatibility options
> are kept, like --emulation=crisaout for cris-aout and
> --emulation=criself for CRIS ELF targets.

Getting rid of emulations would be nice imo, but besides their removal
apparently affecting cris (where aiui one can have a build with both
emulations enabled), MIPS also uses them. But yes, it wasn't so long
ago that we purged their use from i386.

Jan