Hi Kai,
> 2014-11-28 12:21 GMT+01:00 Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>:
>> Hi Kai,
>>
>>> this patch skips some test, which are trying to test non-existing
>>> weak-variant for mingw-targets.
>>
>> why is this necessary when most (all?) of those tests already have
>> dg-require-weak? If there's some property of weak variables that
>> PE-COFF lacks, I'd rather have a new effective-target keyword that tests
>> for this.
>>
>> Rainer
>
> As pe-coff indeed has some weak support in linker, but not that
> expected by those tests. So in general it would be wrong to disable
> weak completely, nevertheless are those tests not working for pe-coff
> mingw targets.
that's not at all what I'm saying: I'm asking for a *new, different*
effective-target keyword capturing what those tests require, but
PE-COFF/mingw is missing.
Rainer
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