On 26.04.2023 17:45, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 08:26:26 PDT (-0700), gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 4/25/23 08:50, Jan Beulich via Gcc-patches wrote:
>>> RISC-V will emit ".option nopic" when -fno-pie is in effect, which
>>> matches the generic pattern. Just like done for Alpha, special-case
>>> RISC-V.
>>> ---
>>> A couple more targets look to be affected as well, simply because their
>>> "no-operation" insn doesn't match the expectation. With the apparently
>>> necessary further special casing I then also question the presence of
>>> "SWYM" in the generic pattern.
>>>
>>> An alternative here might be to use dg-additional-options to add e.g.
>>> -fpie. I don't think I know all possible implications of doing so,
>>> though.
> 
> Looks like there's already a no-pie for SPARC.  Nothing's jumping out as 
> to why, but I'm not super familiar with `-fpatchable-function-entry`.
> 
>> I think this is fine.  Go ahead and install it.
> 
> We run into this sort of thing somewhat frequently.  Maybe we want a DG 
> matcher that avoids matching assembler directives?  Or maybe even a 
> "scan-assembler-nop-times" type thing, given that different ports have 
> different names for the instruction?
> 
> I don't see reason to block fixing the test on something bigger, though, 
> so seems fine for trunk.  Presumably we'd want to backport this as well?

Perhaps, but in order to do so I'd need to be given the respective okay.

Jan

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