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Re: Has anyone run "make check" on ia64?


Yes, obviously, I've run it many times.

So far I've ignored all non-IA-64 specific failures due to lack of time,
and because they did not appear to be critical problems.

The IA-64 specific tests suffer from a design problem.  They just emit
a stream of instructions to assemble, but everytime there is a minor
bundle selection change, or a minor DV checking change, the output is
different, and we get testsuite failures.  I won't be able to stabilize the
testsuite until the assembler itself stops changing, or the testsuite gets
rewritten so that it doesn't depend on bundle selection/DV checking.
If the assembler input put every instruction in its own explicit bundle
with its own explicit stop bit, then a lot of these problems would go away.

I'm working on a largish patch to fix a collection of DV checking problems
right now.  It is important to get this into 2.11, as otherwise we won't
be able to use 2.11 in the near future.  Once the work is done, the testsuite
will need more changes to work again.  This is why I haven't looked at IA-64
testsuite failures for the 2.11 release yet.

I'm happy to look at the problems that you are pointing out, but I am
concerned that if this delays my DV checking bug fix patch too much then
we are just shooting ourselves in the foot.

Jim

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