Re: upcoming enhancement requests for GCC testing

[Joel Sherrill]

Janis Johnson wrote:
> The GCC testsuite support does some really ugly things to support
> functionality that is not available in DejaGnu.  For example, it uses
> upvar to reference DejaGnu local variables and overrides several DejaGnu
> procs.  I'd like to propose several changes to DejaGnu that would
> eventually allow GCC to drop its overrides and use that support directly
> from DejaGnu, where it would also be available to other projects.  I'll
> send separate mail messages suggesting specific changes.  As far as I
> know I don't have a copyright assignment for DejaGnu so I won't send
> patches.
>
> GCC provides several test directives, including improvements to some
> already available from DejaGnu.  If other projects are interested in
> those we can look at copying them to DejaGnu.  They're documented at
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Test-Directives.html#Test-Directives
>
> The niftiest piece is the ability to use expressions for target lists
> and the use of effective-target keywords.  This allows a lot of
> flexibility for skipping or xfailing tests to clean up test results.
>
>   
Janis will this help address the types of failures we
see when testing RTEMS?  The two biggest categories
are:

+ scan assembly tests when our BSP needs specific
  CPU flags
+ not generating profile output

I know we have talked about this before.
> Janis Johnson
> GCC testsuite maintainer
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