Pass -B to objcopy binary symbol test

[Alon Bar-Lev]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 01:38, Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Oct 2025, Alan Modra wrote:
>
> > objcopy -I binary -O some_coff_target does not currently work without
> > choosing a valid arch with -B.  This used to be the case for ELF
> > targets too, until commit 6765ee1825d9.
>
>  FWIW this test still fails for numerous targets:
>
> aarch64-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> aarch64-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
> arm-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> arm-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
> hppa-hp-hpux10  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> hppa-hp-hpux10  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
> i386-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> i386-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
> kvx-elf  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> kvx-elf  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
> kvx-linux  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> kvx-linux  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
> powerpc-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> powerpc-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
> x86_64-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
> x86_64-darwin  +FAIL: binary symbol (explicit)
>
> Wasn't it possible to wire using standard `run_dump_test' infrastructure
> rather than coming up with this ad-hoc TCL code?  It would have helped
> with diagnostics, output such as:
>
>                  U
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_end
>                  U
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_size
>                  U
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_start
>                  U
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_end
>                  U
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_size
>                  U
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_start
>
> expected:
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_end
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_size
> _binary__scratch_vol1_binutils_binutils_test_binutils_src_binutils_testsuite_binutils_all_version_s_start,
> actual:
> FAIL: binary symbol (implicit)
>
> surely does not indicate what's wrong (taken from `aarch64-darwin' in this
> case).
>
>   Maciej
>

Hi,

I see that the template `^[0-9a-fA-F]+?[ ]+[TtDdA] ([0-9a-zA-Z_]+` does not
support the `U`.

Can you please describe how you run this CI, I will try to fix everything.

Thanks,
Alon
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