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New ARM testsuite failures

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Nov 29 12:26:00 GMT 2018 
Hi Andre,

>> No good deed goes unpunished ;)

So true.  So true. :-)


> This left me stuck though because:
> 1) I don't understand why it matters if a target is ELF or not when
> making this transformation, I heard it might be because of some non-elf
> targets having to perform state changes in a slightly different manner?

I think that it is because with non-ELF targets you cannot tell if a label
is a function entry point or some other kind of branch destination.  


> 2) Should arm-netbsdelf and/or arm-nto be 'elf'? Specially the first
> lead me to think yes, as for the second I have no idea.

Yes and yes.  (NTO is a form of ELF format used by QNX RTOS).  [Aargh acronym overload!]

Cheers
  Nick
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