Re: [RFA/RFC] Multilibs and gdb.asm

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:19:20PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> >
> > In gdb.asm/asm-source.exp, the testsuite passes multilib options to
> > the assembler according to the compiler syntax.
> > Obviously this doesn't work, as already noted by Nick Clifton in:
> >
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-01/msg00282.html
> >
> > A solution wasn't reached at the time.
> >
> > I found it useful to just bail out of the test if some multilibs were
> > detected. At least it reduced the noise in the testsuite results.
> >
> > Is this too drastic?
> 
> I've got a silly suggestion.  Is there any reason not to assemble by
> invoking the compiler, for this test?  Let it do all the multilib
> footwork.

Oh, that would be a problem for targets where there is no compiler...