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Re: fix alpha compat.exp failures
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:21:57 -0700
- Subject: Re: fix alpha compat.exp failures
- References: <20030627105510.A1198@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:55:10AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> Most of the failures had to do with complex values. And since
> things were demonstrably broken anyway, I went ahead and changed
> the port to use SPLIT_COMPLEX_ARGS as the ABI requires.
>
> Janis, you should consider adding some tests for vector types as
> well. Not sure how, exactly, since not all vector types are legal
> on all targets.
What a coincidence, I was just thinking about that! First, though,
I'm writing some with simpler uses of __attribute__.
Suggestions for new directions for these tests are always welcome.
They're supposed to detect when we break binary compatibility between
releases; finding bugs in existing functionality is just an added
bonus.
Janis