From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24279 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2002 18:44:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 24201 invoked from network); 8 Feb 2002 18:44:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 Feb 2002 18:44:18 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (notinuse.cygnus.com [205.180.231.12]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA26617; Fri, 8 Feb 2002 10:43:58 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3C641AB6.15836585@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 10:44:00 -0000 From: Michael Snyder Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: George France , "Kuppuswamy, Priyadarshini" , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, clp@iol.unh.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add alpha target to asm-source.exp test References: <6B003D25ADBDE347B5542AFE6A55B42E01A43FFD@tayexc13.americas.cpqcorp.net> <02020718103402.15715@shadowfax.middleearth> <20020207223002.A16494@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00245.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:10:34PM -0500, George France wrote: > > Hello Priya, > > > > I like your patch. It makes sense to me, but I have one question, in the > > code below. You are setting the asm-flags to '-gdwaft2'. I would assume > > that this is because '-g' is broken???? If '-g' is broken, shouldn't this be > > two tests??? One with '-g'. One with '-gdwarf2'. > > There's no point in testing -g on Alpha; -g defaults to stabs, and > stabs have never worked on 64-bit systems. -g defaults to whatever it's configured to default to. If alpha is 64 bit, then alpha should be configured to default to dwarf-2.