Systemtap on ARM arch results summary

[David Smith]

On 06/12/2014 11:50 AM, David Long wrote:
> On 06/12/14 11:42, William Cohen wrote:
>> Do you have a patch set showing where you needed to make changes to
>> the *.exp files?
>>
> 
> I have something, but it is a total hack.  I just hardcoded the -marm
> where needed, for a quick test.  My plan is to go back and make that
> conditional on the target type.  This does bring up an interesting point
> though.  I didn't see an obvious way to pass global compiler options
> into the test cases.  That would have been very helpful.  At any rate I
> think some global mechanism is needed to deal with CPUs that support
> multiple instruction sets.  Eventually we'd want to run systemtap
> multiple times on a given platform, to test thumb, thumb2, ARM, and/or
> 64bit.  Maybe other more specific code generation options too.

Actually we do have a global mechanism for compile flags. It is found in
testsuite/lib/compile_flags.exp. Unfortunately I see that several tests
don't actually use it. I'll see if I can't fix that.

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