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pdp11 gas/testsuite FAILs: *ABS* vs. .text

Paul Koning paulkoning@comcast.net
Thu Sep 3 13:34:32 GMT 2020 
> On Sep 3, 2020, at 3:05 AM, Stephen Casner <casner@acm.org> wrote:
> 
> There are two new FAILs for pdp11 gas testsuite since I last ran it
> before the 2.35 release.  In both tests, objdump is showing the
> section for a reference to location 00000000 of the .text section as
> .text whereas the test script is expecting *ABS*.  However, .text
> seems reasonable to me, so the scripts may just be wrong.  These are:
> 
> gas/testsuite/gas/pdp11/opcode.[sd]
> gas/testsuite/gas/pdp11/absreloc.[sd]
> 
> The lines in question are unchanged since they were originally
> committed by Alan Modra and Paul Koning, respectively, so I defer to
> you guys.
> 
>                                                        -- Steve

That seems reasonable.  Neither file has a section declaration in it.  Did the default section change from abs to text?

	paul
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