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

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-05T21:42:52Z

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
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