From: Doug Evans <dje@sebabeach.org>
To: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
Cc: cgen@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: "make gas-test" broken?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8D8970.3090503@sebabeach.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A8D88C8.8010404@gmail.com>
Dave Korn wrote:
> Doug Evans wrote:
>
>
>> Ya, that's the problem I was referring to in
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cgen/2009-q3/msg00056.html.
>> I've changed method test-data of class <keyword> to flag a warning and
>> compensate. It's not ideal, technically wrong, but for right now I
>> don't mind in this particular case.
>>
>
> Ah, gotcha; that's this bit, right?
>
>
>> + ;; If an ifield has, e.g., 2 bits (values 0,1,2,3) and the keyword
>> + ;; only has two values, e.g. (foo 0) (bar 1), then we can get
>> + ;; invalid requests, i.e. for ifield values of 2 and 3.
>> + ;; It's not clear what to do here, but it seems like this is an
>> + ;; error in the description file.
>>
Ya, that's it.
>
> I also have some ifields like that, they're part of the opcode selection and
> not all combinations are valid. (I'll test filling them out with dummy
> entries before I update my sandbox just to see if that would have made a
> difference.)
>
Ifields can have assertions to flag invalid values as prohibited.
gas-test should honor them but I think it currently doesn't.
>
>> Ya, this is a change in Guile's behaviour (circa 1.4?). string-append
>> use to accept symbols, it no longer does.
>>
>
> I was just about to ask about guile versions. I've been noticing testsuite
> FAILs which could be related - I'll take a closer look at any that remain
> after I've updated.
>
Today we support Guile 1.6.8 and 1.8.x. I dropped 1.4.x awhile ago.
When to drop 1.6.x is undecided. If you're using 1.8.x I think you're fine.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-20 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-25 14:31 Dave Korn
2009-08-18 16:42 ` Doug Evans
2009-08-18 17:44 ` Dave Korn
2009-08-19 3:41 ` Dave Korn
2009-08-20 17:07 ` Doug Evans
2009-08-20 17:19 ` Dave Korn
2009-08-20 17:35 ` Doug Evans [this message]
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