On 10/15/14 22:51, Alan Modra wrote:
Target independent tests are always best, but pulling together one that is
specific to a target is usually still good enough. Especially if it's an
x86 target given how often those are tested by the developer community as a
whole.
I think for #1 in your post
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:02:25PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 09/16/14 00:03, Alan Modra wrote:
> >gcc testsuite additions? I decline. It is too soon. If you had read
> >my patch submission you'll see that at some stage gcc was supposed to
> >warn on conflicting section attributes, but hasn't d
On 09/16/14 00:03, Alan Modra wrote:
gcc testsuite additions? I decline. It is too soon. If you had read
my patch submission you'll see that at some stage gcc was supposed to
warn on conflicting section attributes, but hasn't done so for a very
long time. There needs to be some agreement on w
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 01:03:50PM +, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> The point of testsuite additions is to verify the visible changes in
Understood. A long time ago I worked on mil-spec systems..
> > Come to think of it, what if I decline to make any testsuite
> > additions?
>
> Then the patch
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, Alan Modra wrote:
> gcc testsuite additions? I decline. It is too soon. If you had read
> my patch submission you'll see that at some stage gcc was supposed to
> warn on conflicting section attributes, but hasn't done so for a very
> long time. There needs to be some agree
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 08:36:58PM +, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Alan Modra wrote:
>
> > This patch cures the linux kernel boot failure when compiled using
> > trunk gcc. (Andrew, apologies for hijacking your bugzilla, I started
> > work on this before finding the bugzilla.
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Alan Modra wrote:
> This patch cures the linux kernel boot failure when compiled using
> trunk gcc. (Andrew, apologies for hijacking your bugzilla, I started
> work on this before finding the bugzilla..)
Please include testcases in your patch for each case that you fix.
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> This patch cures the linux kernel boot failure when compiled using
> trunk gcc. (Andrew, apologies for hijacking your bugzilla, I started
> work on this before finding the bugzilla..)
It is ok that you took over as it looks like you have a mor
