Re: Adding binutils to the GNU Toolchain buildbot on sourceware

Nick Clifton via Gdb
2022-04-26T12:29:54Z

Hi Jan,

> For gas/testsuite/gas/i386/rept I did already suggest [1] to simply purge
> the test as unreliable. I also put under question the purpose that it was
> originally added for.
>
> [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-April/120339.html

Hmm, I seem to have missed this one. In fact the entire patch series. Sorry.
The series looks good to me, so please go ahead and apply it in its entirety

As for disabling the rept because it is so memory expensive: I think that we
used to.have an environment variable called something like RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS
that had to be set before certain tests were run. Checking the sources though
I cannot find it, so maybe I am imagining things. I still might be a good idea
though. If we use it consistently in the binutils testsuites for the big tests
then users will probably appreciate the facility.

Cheers
Nick