[PATCH,testsuite] remove runtime altivec checking

Janis Johnson janis187@us.ibm.com
Tue Jan 13 17:38:00 GMT 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 20:04 -0800, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> In the same way that trying to check for 64-bit instruction support at
> runtime is bad:
> 
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-01/msg00616.html
> 
> checking for AltiVec instruction support at runtime is bad.  Simulator
> boards don't like it, and real boards are likely to spontaneously
> reboot.  And signal() doesn't work with newlib anyway.
> 
> This patch modifies the testsuite so the relevant tests are run if
> AltiVec is detected as available by DejaGNU.  A similar tack is taken
> for the lone test that checks for Cell instructions at runtime as well.
> 
> Tested on powerpc-none-eabi{,spe}.  OK to commit?
> 
> 2009-01-12  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
> 	    Nathan Froyd  <froydnj@codesourcery.com>
> 	    Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>

OK.

Janis



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