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Re: [4.0 Patch] Backport testsuite "target fpic" support
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caipclassic dot rutgers dot edu>
- Cc: janis187 at us dot ibm dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:57:29 -0800
- Subject: Re: [4.0 Patch] Backport testsuite "target fpic" support
- References: <200512081937.jB8JbQCk015778@caipclassic.rutgers.edu>
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 02:37:26PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> In my last testcase patch that I applied on mainline/4.1/4.0, I failed
> to notice that "target fpic" wasn't available in the 4.0 branch. So
> we're getting this error from the 4.0 testsuite:
>
> > ERROR: gcc.dg/pr18928-1.c: syntax error in target selector "target fpic" for " dg-do 2 compile { target fpic } "
>
> IMHO, we should strive to keep the testsuite harness up to date on 4.0
> because portability of testcases helps keep 4.0 more robust.
>
> So rather than back out the testcase change, I'm backporting the
> target fpic support. (In fact I think we should backport all changes
> to the testsuite/lib/ directory and other *.exp files, but that's more
> than I'd like to do right now.)
What other changes would you like to see backported? I can probably
schedule time to do that, if it's acceptable to Mark to backport big
things that have been in mainline for a significant length of time.
> Tested via "make check" on 4.0 on i686-unknown-linux-gnu.
>
> Okay for 4.0 branch?
Yes.
Janis