Jeff Law <jeffreya...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 7/20/2021 9:44 AM, Serge Belyshev wrote:
>> Special-casing checks for in-tree gas features is unnecessary since
>> r100007 which made configure-gcc depend on all-gas, and thus making
>> alternate code path in gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE for in-tree gas
>> redundant.
>>
>> Along the way this fixes PR 91602, which is caused by incorrect guess
>> of leb128 support presense in RISC-V.
>>
>> First patch removes alternate code path in gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE and
>> related code, the rest are further cleanups. Patches 2 and 3 in
>> series make no functional changes, thus configure is unchanged.
>>
>> Bootstrapped/regtested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu,
>> sparc-sun-solaris2.11 and powerpc-ibm-aix7.{1.5.0,2.4.0}, with and without
>> in-tree binutils (except on aix where combined tree does not appear to work
>> due to dynamic linker peculiarity).
>>
>> OK for mainline ?
>>
>> Serge Belyshev (4):
>> configure: drop version checks for in-tree gas [PR91602]
>> configure: remove version argument from gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE
>> configure: fixup formatting from previous change
>> configure: remove gas versions from tls check
> So just be clear, the point here is to stop checking the version # and
> instead always do a real feature check by testing the behavior of the
> assembler, even an in-tree assembler, right?
That is correct, yes.
