Re: vax gas

[Nick Clifton]

Hi John,

> There was one ld testsuite failure (selective1).  Clearly, the a.out
> object format on vax-*-ultrix* doesn't support selective linking
> because it only has the three standard sections.  I also noticed
> that selective.exp quite when the second test didn't compile rather
> than continuing with the next test.  Here is a little patch for
> these problems.

The patch has been approved and applied.

> I have to wonder if the the gcc options, `-ffunction-sections' and 
> `-fdata-sections', should generate warnings if they are not
> supported.  At the moment, they are silently ignored.  Maybe there
> is a way selective.exp could check if a target supports these.

The latest versions of gcc now generate warning messages if these
features are not supported:

  warning: -ffunction-sections not supported for this target.
  warning: -fdata-sections not supported for this target.

So all that needs to be done is to add a test for these messages into
the ld-selective.exp script.

Cheers
        Nick