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Re: [RFA/RFC] Multilibs and gdb.asm


> 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.

What compiler?  (There may be an assembler and linker but no compiler)

Andrew


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