Question about args.exp test
Andrew Cagney
cagney@gnu.org
Thu Apr 22 15:19:00 GMT 2004
>>>Should probably be xfail'd for arm-elf. I never did because,
>>>> >conceptually, someone could be testing arm-elf with a different target
>>>> >than the simulator and a differently protocol than RDI and a different
>>>> >library than newlib - but in practice I doubt anyone does, so if you
>>>> >want to stick a comment and some xfails in...
>>
>>>
>>> It's a bug. There's nothing stopping someone fixing the sim target.
>
>
> Did you read my reply at all? The sim complies with the RDI mechanism
> of passing information and syscalls to inferior programs. The
> mechanism is incapable of handling quoted arguments. I don't think it
> can be fixed.
I didn't say it was easy. All simulators should consistently handle
parameters in their _default_ mode. At present they don't, and thats a
bug. If a simulator gets set to `rdi' mode then it probably won't work.
Andrew
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