On 06/07/2011 06:25 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Janis Johnson wrote:
>> On 06/07/2011 02:07 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Janis Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Several tests in gcc.target/arm use dg-options with -mcpu=xxxx, which
>>>> causes compiler warnings or errors when the multilib flags include
>>>> -march=yyyy.  This patch causes those tests to be skipped.  It also
>>>> prevents gcc.target/arm/20090811-1.c from running with multilibs that
>>>> would override -mcpu or -mfloat-abi options specified for the test.
>>>
>>> I think you should allow compatible -march options - for example, if 
>>> dg-options has -mcpu=cortex-a8, allow -march=armv7-a but disallow all 
>>> other -march options.
>>>
>> Is this one OK?
> 
> Not sure if the arm people want to review this or would rather I review it...
> 
> Let's give the arm folks a couple days to comment, if no objections, Ok.
> 
> A point of warning, eventually, you'll discover that when a compiler defaults 
> to the argument you want to skip, that you'll needs slightly more power to 
> skip them.  darwin ran into this with things like -m64, and eventually had to 
> do something like lp64.  configure options like --with-cpu=arm9 are the sort 
> that can change the default.

Yes, I hope to hear from ARM people.

On ARM, the default from --with-cpu= is overridden by -march at
compile so it's not a problem for this particular set of tests.
As I said originally, this set is the tip of the iceberg and they
get more difficult.

Janis

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