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Binutils checkin policy (Re: i386 gas is broken)

Hans-Peter Nilsson hp@bitrange.com
Mon Nov 5 07:17:00 GMT 2001 
On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 06:30:50PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > What fun!  Corrupted frag chain, so something is scribbling where it
> > shouldn't.  More fallout from 2001-11-14 Daniel Jacobowitz, I think.

There were no gas patches in there, so it's less likely than the
last days gas changes.

> I'd like to suggest a policy that any non-minor changes to binutils
> should pass
>
> # .../configure --enable-targets=all --enable-64-bit-bfd
> # make
> # make check
>
> on Linux/x86.

(I guess you mean --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu if that's not the
host system.)

A couple of cross-builds with make check before and after the
patch won't hurt either, in addition to or in place of a native
make check.  When the patch causing breakage is identified, I
suggest we revert it, and let the author debug it.

FWIW, I see major breakdown in simulator builds which can be
explained by a fragged frag chain (as crashes in those ways).
Only h8300-hms seems to have survived a complete build.
There's another coff target that didn't, i960-coff.

brgds, H-P
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