Which C compilers do we have that are not capable of producing ELF
binaries?   GCC on Windows maybe?  That's not even a supported test
configuration.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 2:29 PM Pavel Labath via Phabricator <
revi...@reviews.llvm.org> wrote:

> labath added a comment.
>
> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D32434#735877, @eugene wrote:
>
> > Is it  really necessary to check in binary ELF files?
> >  I understand that we don't always have a C compiler capable of
> producing ELF files, but maybe it's ok to skip this test on those platforms.
>
>
> That is something very I am very much trying to avoid, as that means
> people on those platforms cannot validate their changes. (And I'm not sure
> if I even want to be running a compiler for a test at this level, as that
> introduces a level of nondeterminism.)
>
> That said, I do agree we should be carefully about adding lots of binary
> bloat. I have been trying to put this off until we have more of these, but
> maybe I could try integrating this with obj2yaml -- it does not seem to
> preserve program headers, but I don't actually need those for this test.
>
>
> https://reviews.llvm.org/D32434
>
>
>
>
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