[RFA]: patch to ia64.inc in gdb.asm testsuite

Jeff Johnston jjohnstn@redhat.com
Wed Feb 11 22:15:00 GMT 2004


Patch checked in.  Thanks.

-- Jeff J.

Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> The attached patch is needed to get the gdb.asm testsuite running 
>> successfully for ia64.  A recent patch changed the link step to use 
>> the target linker rather than gcc.  The old method was defaulting 
>> dynamic loading.  The new code causes a static executable to be 
>> created with the first insn being that of gdbasm_startup.  Previously, 
>> the first insn was just a mov, but this should be an alloc insn.  
>> Without this change, a SIGILL is caused for the first insn and the 
>> tests all fail.
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> If it works for you :-)  I'm sure there's going to be more of this fallout.
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> Andrew
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>> 2004-02-04  Jeff Johnston  <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
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>>        * gdb.asm/ia64.inc (gdbasm_startup): Make sure first instruction
>>        executed is an alloc instruction.
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