On 15/02/2024 10:57, Tamar Christina wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> This test has never worked on AArch64 since the day it was committed.  It has
> a number of issues that prevent it from working on AArch64:
> 
> 1.  IEEE does not require that FP operations raise a SIGFPE for FP operations,
>     only that an exception is raised somehow.
> 
> 2. Most Arm designed cores don't raise SIGFPE and instead set a status 
> register
>    and some partner cores raise a SIGILL instead.
> 
> 3. The way it checks for feenableexcept doesn't really work for AArch64.
> 
> As such this test doesn't seem to really provide much value on AArch64 so we
> should just xfail it.
> 
> Regtested on aarch64-none-linux-gnu and no issues.
> 
> Ok for master?

Wouldn't it be better to just skip the test.  XFAIL just adds clutter to 
verbose output and suggests that someday the tools might be fixed for this case.

Better still would be a new dg-requires fp_exceptions_raise_sigfpe as a guard 
for the test.

R.

> 
> Thanks,
> Tamar
> 
> gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog:
> 
>         PR fortran/107071
>         * gfortran.dg/ieee/modes_1.f90: xfail aarch64.
> 
> --- inline copy of patch --
> diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/ieee/modes_1.f90 
> b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/ieee/modes_1.f90
> index 
> 205c47f38007d06116289c19d6b23cf3bf83bd48..3667571969427ae7b2b96684ec1af8b3fdd4985f
>  100644
> --- a/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/ieee/modes_1.f90
> +++ b/gcc/testsuite/gfortran.dg/ieee/modes_1.f90
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -! { dg-do run }
> +! { dg-do run { xfail { aarch64*-*-* } } }
>  !
>  ! Test IEEE_MODES_TYPE, IEEE_GET_MODES and IEEE_SET_MODES
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 

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