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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