Re: [PATCH] z8k fixes

[Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >
> >> As an aside, are there a pre-packaged z8k toolchain and a set of GDB
> >> test results available?
> >
> >
> > pre-packaged for what?
>
> I get the feeling I'm going to be multi-arching the z8k .... to do this
> I'm going to need a toolchain so I can test GDB against.  That way I can
> ensure that the conversion doesn't break it.

Yes, ok, but my question was more in the direction: what host?
I'm using the z8k gcc which I found in some RedHat ecosTools archive.
There is a bug in there, so before using this please contact me.

> > Regarding the test results, there aren't. I think there is no testsuite
> > for z8k. How would I proceed creating one?
>
> GDB already has a dejagnu based testsuite.  If you have a z8k cross
> compiler / assembler / linker installed, it should be possible to run
> the GDB testsuite for the z8k target.

(newbie alert!) How would I do this?

> (there is a little bit on the dejagnu testsuite in the gdb internals doco).

I'll look into this. Thanks.

regards,
chris