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From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford@googlemail.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com>,
	 GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
	 Vladimir Makarov <vmakarov@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RFA: Fix debug-insn sensitivity in RA
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob84j17d.fsf@talisman.default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130907114240.GW23437@tucnak.redhat.com> (Jakub Jelinek's	message of "Sat, 7 Sep 2013 13:42:40 +0200")

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:
> On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 12:37:14PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>> Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> writes:
>> > Can you please add a test case?
>> 
>> What kind of test would you suggest?  Do we have a harness for testing
>> that -O2 and -O2 -g .text output is identical?
>
> No, but we have -fcompare-debug, which is even stronger than that (compares
> final RTL, so can catch even differences that aren't visible in the .s file,
> but still are relevant).  And, the default way of bootstrapping also
> compares .text etc. after stripping, between stage2 (built without debug)
> and stage3 (with debug).

Right, the bootstrap thing is what forced me to write the patch in
the first place.  I probably wasn't clear, sorry, but the original
problem was a bootstrap comparison failure between stage 2 and stage 3
because the tree.o code depended on whether debug info was enabled.

I'll try to use -fcompare-debug though, thanks.

Richard

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-07 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-07  9:26 Richard Sandiford
2013-09-07 11:37 ` Steven Bosscher
2013-09-07 11:39   ` Richard Sandiford
2013-09-07 11:42     ` Steven Bosscher
2013-09-07 11:44     ` Jakub Jelinek
2013-09-07 13:01       ` Richard Sandiford [this message]
2013-09-07 16:42       ` Richard Sandiford
2013-09-08 15:57         ` Vladimir Makarov

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