RE: [patch, testsuite, cilk] Fix cilk tests for simulators

["Iyer, Balaji V" <balaji dot v dot iyer at intel dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Ellcey [mailto:sellcey@mips.com]
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2013 6:31 PM
> To: Jeff Law
> Cc: Iyer, Balaji V; gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [patch, testsuite, cilk] Fix cilk tests for simulators
> 
> On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 13:47 -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> > On 06/03/2013 01:27 PM, Iyer, Balaji V wrote:
> > >
> > > I am OK with Steve's changes in most cases. In a few cases, I am
> > > using it as a parameter to pass into tests. On a top-level, the main
> > > reason why I used argc, and argv is that, I want to make sure the
> > > compiler will never do things like constant propagation, and it will
> > > pass it as a variable.
> > So use Jakub's trick, or define non-inlinable functions which return
> > suitable tables.
> >
> > We simply can't use argc/argv in the manner in which those tests do
> > and I'd rather clean up the test to avoid argc/argv than support two
> > paths through the test, one with argc/argv, one without.
> >
> > jeff
> 
> I'll leave fixing the tests to Balaji then instead of doing it myself since that way
> he can be sure that they are testing what he wants to test.

OK, I will look into this. 

-Balaji V. Iyer.

> 
> Steve Ellcey
> sellcey@mips.com
>