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Re: [4.0 Patch] Backport testsuite "target fpic" support
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 04:32:57PM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:59:37AM -0500, Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> > > In terms of actual needs, I'd like to continue my i?86 vs x86_64
> > > testcase fixes on 3.4, now that 4.0 is pretty much done. In order
> > > to do that, I need to have effective target "fpic" and "ilp32/lp64"
> > > backported to 3.4.
> >
> > Kaveh, does it help to have dg-require-effective-target, or do you
> > also need selector expressions that let you combine effective targets
> > with target triplets?
>
> Oh, I didn't realize that these were significantly separate
> in terms of what code you touch to backport them.
>
> I believe some of the relevant testcases in 4.x use
> dg-require-effective-target and others use selector expressions. It
> would be better if I didn't have to rewrite half of the tests' dg-
> commands when backporting them. So my preference is to have both
> idioms available in 3.4.
I'm working on backporting testsuite framework changes from trunk to
4.1, 4.0, and 3.4 branches. I don't want to break anything so I'll
be doing it in small chunks with lots of testing in between, meaning
it will take awhile.
Janis