Re: vax binutils 2.39 gas problems

Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Jan 2023 16:52:32 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.vax,gmane.os.netbsd.devel.toolchain
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

No, the fix is broken. I have an uglier fix that I am testing.
I also have a small unit test that is failing :-)

Best,

christos

> On Jan 28, 2023, at 4:09 PM, Maciej W. Rozycki <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Christos --
> 
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 
>>> On Jan 27, 2023, at 7:44 PM, Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> christos@ wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think I found the problem....
>>> 
>>> Thanks, with the following your commit
>>> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2023/01/27/msg143037.html
>>> now vax bootloader builds.
> 
> Do you have plans to submit your fix upstream?  Preferably with a GAS
> test case (I can help you with that) reduced from the original problematic
> assembly source.  The VAX port has so little target-specific coverage in
> the testsuite and without that it's hard to track quality; we don't know
> what the reference is even.
> 
> Please note that it's not necessary anymore to assign the copyright of
> the FSF to contribute to upstream binutils (cf. binutils/MAINTAINERS):
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> The alternative is to sign off the contribution by agreeing to the
> Developer's Certificate of Origin (version 1.1 or later) and adding a
> line to the end of the contribution that looks something like this:
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <[email protected]>
> 
> The details of the Developer's Certificate or Origin can be found here:
> 
>  https://developercertificate.org/
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> With the requirement for copyright assignment lifted I do encourage you to
> contribute any local changes you may have so as to save everyone duplicate
> effort.
> 
>  Maciej

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