On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:27:32PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:51:32PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:34:07PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > > Here's a patch that simply uses hardcoded definitions instead of
> > > doing the dynamic tests that require architecture-specific scripts.
> >
> > We hardcode the compiler version also.
>
> Yes, but we do not hardcoce specific versions of objdump or readelf, which
> are also used by these scripts to generate their output.
readelf is only used to detect problems with the compiler and the
assembler.
> My primary concern is that, in the future, the output of these scripts
> will change and we (or our successors) will either not notice or
> forget to update the hardcoded values.
Thats why I say you should remove the code completely; it is not longer
possible to change it without getting completely different results.
Bastian
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