Re: PATCH for 64-bit MIPS ELF buglets

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com>]

   From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
   Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 14:38:00 -0700

   Does GCC's MIPS16 support work?  Is there the appropriate GDB
   simulation code?  Does anyone have recent benchmarks of GCC + MIPS16
   to test against?  How do you run the GCC testsuite in this situation?
   (I assume the usual "make check" doesn't cut it.)

   I would be willing to give this a go, if someone gives me clear
   directions as to what to do.

When I worked on the mips16 code, almost all the gcc tests passed.
That was a couple of years ago now, though.

gdb does have mips16 simulator support.  You just have to configure
for --target mips-elf.  `make check' is all you need in gcc.  In your
DejaGnu site.exp file, set target_list to mips-sim.  You may have to
frob something to get DejaGnu to find the simulator.

   I do think we should encourage folks to work on the testsuite thing,
   though; running the full GCC testsuite is probably a) too
   time-consuming and b) too complicated and c) too dependent on GCC,
   rather than purely on binutils to be practical as a regular regression
   test for most developers.

I agree.  I encourage anyone looking for a project to look into
beefing up the binutils testsuite.

Ian