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Re: Option -pthread in test suite with cross compilers
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Joel Sherrill <joel dot sherrill at oarcorp dot com>, Ralf Corsepius <ralf dot corsepius at rtems dot org>, Sebastian Huber <sebastian dot huber at embedded-brains dot de>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 00:13:03 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Option -pthread in test suite with cross compilers
- References: <4FB5F922.3070205@embedded-brains.de> <4FB605FE.2030500@rtems.org> <mcripftd3ge.fsf@dhcp-172-18-216-180.mtv.corp.google.com> <4FB6538D.8060903@oarcorp.com> <mcr1umhd1p5.fsf@dhcp-172-18-216-180.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com> writes:
>
> > On 05/18/2012 08:27 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> >> Ralf Corsepius<ralf.corsepius@rtems.org> writes:
> >>
> >>> I am not sure, but AFAICT, -pthread is Linux-specific.
> >> It's not properly documented, but -pthread works on a number of hosts,
> >> including Solaris, Darwin, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, AIX.
> > Ian.. Is it better to make it a noop for RTEMS or fix the test
> > infrastructure that is turning it on where it doesn't exist?
>
> Sorry to be vague, but I think it depends on whether the tests are
> meaningful on RTEMS. If dg-require-effective-target pthread_h lets a
> test run, then I suppose I think the -pthread option ought to work.
There's also the effective-target pthread...
(Somewhat redundant, but FWIW it pre-dates the effective-target
pthread_h.)
Depending on how the affected maintainers stand on the
"-pthread"-everywhere question, you might want to add that
test-case constraint to the tests requiring and passing
-pthread.
brgds, H-P