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

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>]

This is very unfortunate, but if there is no way around it we
have no other choice.

Go ahead, please.

Fernando


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?
> 
> Elena
> 
> 2002-04-05  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@redhat.com>
> 
>         * gdb.asm/asm-source.exp: Bail out if multilibs are detected.
> 
> Index: asm-source.exp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/uberbaum/gdb/testsuite/gdb.asm/asm-source.exp,v
> retrieving revision 1.19
> diff -u -p -r1.19 asm-source.exp
> --- asm-source.exp      2002/04/05 02:48:23     1.19
> +++ asm-source.exp      2002/04/05 21:15:04
> @@ -67,10 +67,29 @@ if { "${asm-arch}" == "" } {
>      gdb_suppress_entire_file "Assembly source test -- not implemented for this target."
>  }
> 
> +# Watch out, we are invoking the assembler, but the testsuite sets multilib
> +# switches according to compiler syntax.  If we pass these options straight
> +# to the assembler, they won't always make sense.  If we don't pass them to
> +# the assembler, the final link will complain that the object files were
> +# built with different defaults.  So no matter what we do, we lose.  We may as
> +# well get out of this test sooner rather than later.
> +set dest [target_info name]
> +if [board_info $dest exists multilib_flags] {
> +       set multilib_flags [board_info $dest multilib_flags]
> +       if { "${multilib_flags}" != "" } {
> +          gdb_suppress_entire_file "Assembly source test -- multilibs not supported by this test."
> +          return;
> +        }
> +}
> +
>  set testfile "asm-source"

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