Re: linkage gcc.misc-tests

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

On 29/08/2006, at 5:27 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> Geoff,
>    Isn't the gcc.misc-tests/linkage.c failing just because we don't  
> have
> an entry in linkage.exp that defines the native flags for Darwin?

Yes.

> Also,
> this test look pretty dicey in that it uses...
>
>         catch { exec cc -c $native_cflags "$srcdir/$subdir/linkage- 
> y.c" >&/dev/null }
>
> and...
>
>             catch { exec c89 -c $native_cflags "$srcdir/$subdir/ 
> linkage-y.c" >&/dev/null }
>
> which makes me wonder how in the world you can be sure it will be  
> executing the
> compiler you just built for testing (instead of whatever is in /usr/ 
> bin)?

If you think about the purpose of this test, you'll realise that this  
is correct.

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