Testsuite failures in gdb.dwarf2/dw2-*.exp

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl
Sat Jan 27 10:56:00 GMT 2007


> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:37:52 +0100
> 
> Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
> >> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:12:01 +0100
> >> 
> >> On ia64 the .short/.int/.quad directives always generate aligned fields,
> >> adding padding as necessary.  For DWARF tables the .2byte/.4byte/.8byte
> >> directives should be used instead.
> >
> > I've never seen these.  Are they supported by all versions of gas?
> 
> Since the beginning of time, err, dwarf support (older than the import to
> sourceware anyway, which was nearly 8 years ago).

No objections from me then, assuming you've tested this on something
else besides ia64.

Mark



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