On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 08:50:53AM -0500, will schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 06:00 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 12:29:45AM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> > > In PR target/104253, it was pointed out the that test case added as part
> > > of fixing the PR does not work on VxWorks because float128 is not
> > > supported on that system.  I have modified the three tests for float128 so
> > > that they are manually excluded on VxWorks systems.  In looking at the
> > > code, I also added checks in check_effective_target_ppc_ieee128_ok to
> > > disable the systems that will never support VSX instructions which are
> > > required for float128 support (eabi, eabispe, darwin).
> > 
> > It's just one extra to the big list here, but, why do we need all these
> > manual exclusions anyway?  What is broken about the test itself?
> 
> >From the PR, it looks like this test noted an error, not actually a
> failure.  
> 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104253#c17
> 
> cc1: warning: The '-mfloat128' option may not be fully supported

Aha, thanks for checking.  If that is what causes the error, the test
in target-supports needs robustifying.

> > It would be so much more useful if the tests would help us, instead of
> > producing a lot of extra busy-work.

(^^^ to help improve this)


Segher

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