From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16095 invoked by alias); 8 Jun 2011 19:34:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 16076 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jun 2011 19:34:00 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (HELO qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.27.243) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:33:47 +0000 Received: from omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.59]) by qmta13.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tXUt1g0081GXsucADXZlxy; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:33:45 +0000 Received: from up.mrs.kithrup.com ([24.4.193.8]) by omta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id tXZm1g01L0BKwT48UXZnAk; Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:33:48 +0000 Subject: Re: [testsuite] skip ARM tests with conflicting options Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Mike Stump In-Reply-To: <4DEF516C.7060703@arm.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:39:00 -0000 Cc: Janis Johnson , "Joseph S. Myers" , "gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <4DEE8FE7.50001@codesourcery.com> <4DEEB332.2070706@codesourcery.com> <4DEEDAF0.6090100@codesourcery.com> <4DEF516C.7060703@arm.com> To: Richard Earnshaw X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00671.txt.bz2 On Jun 8, 2011, at 3:39 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote: > I'm worried by this whole approach of command-line checking. Right, and this was essentially my point originally. Luckily there is enou= gh beef I think behind the curtains to do everything that needs doing witho= ut worrying about adding yet more infrastructure. > Perhaps a better approach would be a new dg- test A new mechanism would be necessary if the existing ones turn out to be poor= or unworkable. To be concrete, could you give a specific example of somet= hing that doesn't work well with the existing mechanisms?