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Re: selective.exp xfails
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:29:33PM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
> >>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>
> >> + Why are all Alpha targets XFAILed?
>
> H> I don't think alpha supports garbage collection.
>
> Okay.
>
> H> I don't think mips supports garbage collection either.
>
> Really?
>
> ``* Added garbage collection of unused sections, enabled by --gc-sections.
> It does require a bit of backend support; currently implemented are
> arm-elf, avr-elf, d10v-elf, fr30-elf, i386-elf, m32r-elf, m68k-elf,
> mcore-elf, mips-elf, mn10300-elf, ppc-elf, sh-elf, sparc-elf, and v850-elf.
> Others will ignore the option.''
I don't believe GC works on ELF/mips. I don't remeber seeing any real
GC code in elf32-mips.c. It is quite tricky due to the MIPS ABI. I
never bother to fix it.
H.J.