Re: [PATCH] Add alpha target to asm-source.exp test

Michael Snyder
2002-02-08T18:44:23Z

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.