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Re: [RFA/RFC] Multilibs and gdb.asm
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 16:42:58 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA/RFC] Multilibs and gdb.asm
- References: <15534.5336.562102.896601@localhost.redhat.com>
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:19:20PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>
> In gdb.asm/asm-source.exp, the testsuite passes multilib options to
> the assembler according to the compiler syntax.
> Obviously this doesn't work, as already noted by Nick Clifton in:
>
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-01/msg00282.html
>
> A solution wasn't reached at the time.
>
> I found it useful to just bail out of the test if some multilibs were
> detected. At least it reduced the noise in the testsuite results.
>
> Is this too drastic?
I've got a silly suggestion. Is there any reason not to assemble by
invoking the compiler, for this test? Let it do all the multilib
footwork.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer