FYI: large number of objc failures on i686-linux-gnu

[Andreas Jaeger]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 06:05:51PM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> 
>> I get with current CVS a large number of failures in objc:
>> 
>>                 === objc Summary ===
>> 
>> # of expected passes            570
>> # of unexpected failures        236
>> # of unresolved testcases       236
>> 
>> 
>> Most of the failures (I didn't check all) are missing symbols:
>> 
>> FAIL: objc/execute/accessing_ivars.m compilation,  -O0 
>> UNRESOLVED: objc/execute/accessing_ivars.m execution,  -O0 
>> Executing on host: /builds/gcc/gcc-3.1-devel/gcc/xgcc -B/builds/gcc/gcc-3.1-devel/gcc/ /cvs/gcc/gcc/testsuite/objc/execute/accessing_ivars.m  -w  -O1  -I/cvs/gcc/gcc/testsuite/../../libobjc -L/builds/gcc/gcc-3.1-devel/i686-pc-linux-gnu/libobjc/.libs -lobjc  -lm   -o /builds/gcc/gcc-3.1-devel/gcc/testsuite/accessing_ivars.x1    (timeout = 300)
>> /opt/binutils/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `__objc_class_name_Object' are not defined
>> output is:
>> /opt/binutils/bin/ld: warning: type and size of dynamic symbol `__objc_class_name_Object' are not defined
>
> That is a very old problem. See
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-08/msg00153.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-11/msg00944.html
>

Strange, it seems to have worked at the beginning of december, see:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2001-12/msg00016.html

But that might have been just another bug ;-)

I'd just like to point out that Objective C seems to be not ready for
GCC 3.1 on i686-linux.

Andreas
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