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RE: Results for haifa-enabled egcs-2.93.20 19990427 (gcc2 ss-980929 e xperimental) testsuite on mips-sgi-irix6.2/-mabi=64

Is there a way for the testsuite to flag tests as xfail under certain
compiler options, 
specifically -mabi=64 which I think is exclusive to mips-sgi-irix6.x

> >		=== g77 Summary ===
> >
> ># of expected passes		546
> ># of unexpected failures	36
> 
> It probably makes sense to have g77 abort, with a "helpful" error
> message, when -mabi=64, or some similarly assumption-breaking
> configuration, is triggered.  That'll make more tests fail, but
> might also avoid giving the impression of generating correct code
> when it probably isn't.
> 
> I'll look into doing this later.  (g77 has done it in the past,
> for configurations we knew it didn't support.  Maybe post-1.2-branch
> will be the time to start the rewrite that'll cure so many of these
> problems....)
> 
>         tq vm, (burley)