Re: [PATCH] improve equate handling

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>]

>>>the BFD_RELOC_8 and so fail some of the new tests.  I updated the
>
>> I'm surprised about this. I believe my list of targets is pretty
>> complete (it includes arc for example), and I didn't find the
problem
>> because even the reference build (i.e. prior to my changes) for
many
>> targets doesn't succeed. Perhaps, while I used a 64-bit one, you
tested
>> on a 32-bit host? I just verified that the build there fails due to
>> -Werror.
>
>I was using a 32-bit host (or strictly speaking a 64-bit machine
running 
>in 32-bit emulation mode).  I based my comment about some extra
targets 
>not support 8-bit relocs on the error messages in the various gas.log

>files.  For example the xtensa-elf port complained about BFD_RELOC_8 
>being unsupported, and the pdp11-aout port generates an error about an

>unsupported case value (which if you track it down, turns out to be a

>lack of support for 8-bit values).
>
>Still if you feel my additions to the xfail list are wrong then please

>feel free to remove them.  Even better would be to fix the offending 
>ports so that they pass the new tests.

No, I didn't mean to complain about anything. Rather I wanted to
understand why I missed some things you found. As it turns out, xtensa
wasn't on my list of target to build/check, nor is pdp11.

Jan