[wwwdocs] Re: gcc.gnu.org/simtest-howto.html (was: Question for ARM person re asm_fprintf)(

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Tue Aug 19 11:02:00 GMT 2014


On Mon, 18 Aug 2014, Oleg Endo wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 16:57 -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Aug 2014, Oleg Endo wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2014-08-17 at 16:56 -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 15 Aug 2014, Oleg Endo wrote:
> > > > > > How about the attached .html as a replacement for the current one?
> > > > > > I removed the requirement of setting up a combined tree, as I believe
> > > > > > it makes things much more easy.  At least it's been working for me
> > > > > > that way.  Is this helpful / OK to commit?
> > > > >
> > > > > Maybe a patch is better in this case, instead of the whole .html.
> > > >
> > > > hm no likey, this is simply changing too much and making it
> > > > SH-specific.  Also, /usr/local is the default.
> > >
> > > I thought the it would work for other targets by replacing "sh-elf" with
> > > "$TARGET".  However, I can't test all of those.  Maybe maintainers/users
> > > of other targets can comment on the applicability beyond SH.
> > > I'm afraid that's all I can do for now.
> >
> > I'll pick this up.  After all, I'm supposedly the maintainer of
> > that page...  thanks.
>
> BTW, I've just noticed that I've duplicated the 'Passing options and
> running multiple testsuites' section mentioned on
> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/test.html .  Maybe the sim-test page could
> be simply integrated into the test.html page in a stripped down form.

There's certainly an unexpected disconnect but I think a link
would be better than inlining.

> Most parts of my description have actually nothing to do with
> sim-testing, but are just one way of setting up a newlib based cross
> toolchain.  Maybe that can be put as a cross toolchain example somewhere
> else on the wwwdocs, like https://gcc.gnu.org/install/build.html

Sounds like a good idea.  BTW, to check out the web pages to
generate patches, see <http://gcc.gnu.org/about.html#cvs>.

brgds, H-P



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