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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Ulrich Weigand via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Aditya Kamath1 <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>,
	 "tom@tromey.com" <tom@tromey.com>,
	 Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>,
	 Sangamesh Mallayya <sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com>,
	 "simon.marchi@efficios.com" <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Modify align-c/align-c++ test case for AIX
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 08:17:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cvagpeh.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <61289f79c8c08ebe15112711954e1b05d49c92be.camel@de.ibm.com> (Ulrich Weigand via Gdb-patches's message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2023 07:41:40 +0000")

>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Ulrich> If the -bnogc flag is always necessary with the AIX linker, this
Ulrich> should be handled automatically by the test instead of via site.exp.

Ulrich> I'm assuming this is only needed with test files that use global
Ulrich> variables unused in the source code, but used by the debugger.
Ulrich> I think it would be best to explicitly add the flag to those tests
Ulrich> where it is needed.

I think there's also cases in the test suite where we've added uses of
variables to ensure they aren't optimized away.  With a comment
somewhere explaining why, I'm also ok with that.  It seems less
intrusive maybe than adding ldflags to a lot of tests.

Tom

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-03-21 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10  8:57 Aditya Kamath1
2023-03-10 14:46 ` Tom Tromey
2023-03-13 13:04   ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-03-13 14:10     ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-03-15 11:52       ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-03-15 12:45         ` Tom Tromey
2023-03-16  7:01           ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-03-17 17:06             ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-03-17 22:03             ` Tom Tromey
2023-03-21  7:01               ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-03-21  7:41                 ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-03-21 11:05                   ` Pedro Alves
2023-03-21 14:17                   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2023-03-21 14:26                     ` Ulrich Weigand
2023-03-29 11:28                       ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-03-29 13:36                         ` Pedro Alves
2023-03-31 12:29                           ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-04-04 13:24                             ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-04-05 16:33                             ` Pedro Alves
2023-04-06 13:15                               ` Aditya Kamath1
2023-04-06 16:18                                 ` Pedro Alves
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-10  8:56 Aditya Kamath1
2023-03-10 10:08 ` Aditya Kamath1

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