RE: Binutils 2.15.97 available

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Daniel Jacobowitz
>Sent: 21 April 2005 14:11

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:41:18AM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Daniel Jacobowitz
>>> Sent: 20 April 2005 20:51
>> 
>>> I have uploaded binutils 2.15.97 to:
>>> 
>>>  
>>> ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.15.97.tar.bz2
>>> 
>>> I plan that this will be the last prerelease, and binutils 2.16 will
>>> be released more-or-less unchanged next week.  Please do not commit
>>> anything to the 2.16 release branch without asking me first.  Please
>>> test this snapshot.
>>> 
>>> If problems show up for particular targets, I would prefer to have a
>>> quick 2.16.1 rather than delay this release any further.
>> 
>> 
>>   Looks fairly good on cygwin, but there seems to be one more ld failure
>> than the most recent (version: 2.16.90 20050313) test results I could
>> find on the list; the extra FAIL is "FAIL: cdtest".  I haven't looked
>> into it yet; is it a known issue?
> 
> No, but cdtest usually means something is wrong with C++.  How about
> sharing log bits instead of summary bits? :-)

  Hmmm, looks a bit funny to me....



Running
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest.exp
...
c++ -L/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/./ld -g -O2
-fno-exceptions
-B/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/ld/tmpdir/gas/
-I/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest -g -O2
-c
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest-foo.
cc -o tmpdir/cdtest-foo.o
c++ -L/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/./ld -g -O2
-fno-exceptions
-B/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/ld/tmpdir/gas/
-I/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest -g -O2
-c
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest-bar.
cc -o tmpdir/cdtest-bar.o
c++ -L/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/./ld -g -O2
-fno-exceptions
-B/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/ld/tmpdir/gas/
-I/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest -g -O2
-c
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest-main
.cc -o tmpdir/cdtest-main.o
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/ld/ld-new -m i386pe  -o
tmpdir/cdtest /lib/crt0.o tmpdir/cdtest-foo.o tmpdir/cdtest-bar.o
tmpdir/cdtest-main.o  --start-group
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/libgcc.a -lc --end-group -lcygwin
-L/usr/lib/w32api -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/libgcc.a
tmpdir/cdtest >tmpdir/cdtest.out
diff tmpdir/cdtest.out
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest.dat
4a5,6
> Initializing Foo(5) "default-foo" with Foo(4)
> Destructing Foo(4) "default-foo" (remaining foos: 4)
10c12
< Destructing Foo(4) "default-foo" (remaining foos: 3)
---
> Destructing Foo(5) "default-foo" (remaining foos: 3)
11a14,15
> Destructing Foo(2) "static_foo" (remaining foos: 1)
> Destructing Foo(1) "static_foo" (remaining foos: 0)
child process exited abnormally
Checking against Named Return Value optimization
diff tmpdir/cdtest.out
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest-nrv.
dat
11a12,13
> Destructing Foo(2) "static_foo" (remaining foos: 1)
> Destructing Foo(1) "static_foo" (remaining foos: 0)
child process exited abnormally
FAIL: cdtest
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/ld/ld-new -m i386pe -o
tmpdir/cdtest.o -r -Ur tmpdir/cdtest-foo.o tmpdir/cdtest-bar.o
tmpdir/cdtest-main.o
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/obj-binutils-2.15.97/ld/ld-new -m i386pe  -o
tmpdir/cdtest /lib/crt0.o tmpdir/cdtest.o  --start-group
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/libgcc.a -lc --end-group -lcygwin
-L/usr/lib/w32api -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/libgcc.a
tmpdir/cdtest >tmpdir/cdtest.out
assertion "Foo::nb_foos() == 2" failed: file
"/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest-mai
n.cc", line 32
FAIL: cdtest with -Ur
testcase
/davek/patch-gnu/testing/binutils-2.15.97/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest.exp
completed in 2 seconds



  Hmm, the static initialisers don't appear to be being called in the cdtest
-Ur, it seems that nb_foos is zero.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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