On Saturday 05 September 2009 08:39:26 Jie Zhang wrote:
> Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:00:55PM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> >> I have just created the 2.20 branch and updated the version on HEAD.
> >> I will try to do the first prerelease soon.
> >
> > Lots of testsuite failures at the moment.  It would be nice if target
> > maintainers would give these some attention.
> >
> > bfin-elf/log0:FAIL: flow2
> > bfin-elf/log0:FAIL: loop
> > bfin-elf/log0:FAIL: loop2
> > bfin-elf/log0:FAIL: loop3
>
> I don't see these 4 FAILs here.
>
> > bfin-elf/log0:FAIL: ld-elf/64ksec-r
> > bfin-elf/log0:FAIL: ld-elf/64ksec
>
> These two FAIL is because Blackfin as does not accept "SYMBOL = VALUE".
> Blackfin has an algebra assembly syntax. Assigning value to a register
> has the form:
>
> "REG = VALUE"
>
> If there is typo of REG, this will become "SYMBOL = VALUE". That error
> is not easy to notice. So I think it's better to let Blackfin gas reject
> "SYMBOL = VALUE" to detect such error. .set can be used if user want to
> set value to a symbol.
>
> How about the attached patch?

i recall some tests semi-recently being changed from ".set" to "=" on purpose.  
might want to double check the history.  maybe Alan remembers better than i 
though ...
-mike