Re: MIPS gas is broken now.

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
> > > > AFAICS the embedded PIC tests shouldn't be checked for mips*-linux
> > > > targets. Maybe they should apply only for mips*-elf targets, but
> > > > I'm not sure about this. Chris, what's your opinion about this idea?
> > > 
> > >  They are handy for checking if a generic MIPS change doesn't break
> > > embedded targets.
> > 
> > It wasn't a generic change but a change to mips*-linux targets.
> > It doesn't affect toolchains for embedded targets.
> 
>  Sure, but how does that relate to your question and my answer?

I don't think an erraneous test failure which lead to this patch
going in is "handy". The test we are talking about fails for any
32 bit only MIPS ELF target, and none of these has a use for
embedded PIC.

[snip]
> It would be annoying to me if I had
> to build a separate configuration just to be able to execute embedded PIC
> tests

Several of the tastcases in the gas testsuite are already target
dependent (IMHO for good reason). Are you annoyed by these?

> (or any other tests for non-disabled code, actually).

Maybe embedded PIC should be disabled for targets which have no
use for it.


Thiemo