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fixup arm ld tests

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Thu Sep 9 12:33:00 GMT 2010 
On 09/09/10 13:28, Matthew Gretton-Dann wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:54 +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
>> This patch fixes up a bunch of arm linker tests that were failing.  The tests
>> are quite sensitive to .plt and .got placement, and the base addresses appear to
>> have moved due to other linker changes, I guess.
>>
>> In several cases I was able to make the test less sensitive, by relaxing regexps
>> appropriately.  for instance we often only care about relative displacement, and
>> that is captured in the instruction encoding and also symbol name, so the
>> absolute address can be ignored.
>>
>> built and tested for arm-none-linux-gnueabi, ok?
>
> I do not see these failures when targetting arm-none-eabi [x86 host] or
> arm-none-linux-gnueabi [arm-none-linux-gnueabi host] (with current
> HEAD).  Applying your patch causes the tests you modify to fail.

curious.

> What environment are you in when you see the failures?

host is i686-pc-linux, and target is arm-none-linux-gnueabi  Can you suggest 
anything else to investigate?

nathan

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