From: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Making generic ld testcases pass on more targets
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050216122837.GS10128@bubble.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42133911.2010905@redhat.com>
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:14:09PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> >+#ifdef BFD_ASSEMBLER
> >+ {"dc.a", cons, 0},
> >+#endif
>
> I like this, but why make the pseudo specific to BFD_ASSEMBLERs ?
Because only BFD_ASSEMBLER has arch_info.
> >+ nbytes = (stdoutput->arch_info->bits_per_address - 1) / 8;
>
> It might make sense to allow for individual targets to override this
> computation with their own value if they so wish.
Yes, that would allow non-BFD_ASSEMBLER to use dc.a too.
Another approach occurred to me also, a variation on using
__address_size. Instead of the assembler providing the symbol, we could
have the test harness feed a suitable --defsym to the assembler, chosen
by target name.
--
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-16 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-16 14:15 Alan Modra
2005-02-16 17:03 ` Nick Clifton
2005-02-16 18:48 ` Alan Modra [this message]
2005-02-16 19:48 ` Nick Clifton
2005-02-17 7:44 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2005-02-17 12:26 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2005-02-17 12:58 ` Alan Modra
2005-02-17 13:02 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2005-02-21 15:51 ` Alan Modra
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