Re: developer account on m68k linux system

[Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com>]

Ingo Juergensmann wrote:

> > Thank you very much, but I figured out that running the testsuite
> > will take *days* on a fast 060 machine... Probably twice as much
> > on a 040.
>
> Well, yes, you have much time for other hobbies when doing some m68k porting
> stuff.... 8-))

:-)))


> > In the mean time, John Klos has kindly offered an account
> > on his NetBSD box.  If GCC bootstraps correctly, I'll be
> > able to carry over my work there.
> > The host OS shouldn't matter for regression testing of
> > code generation bugs.
>
> Maybe not the host OS, but the used processors can be differing in some ways
> as well. You should nevertheless run your testsuite as well on a 060 as on a
> 040. We already had some very strange bugs in the past... :)

I plan to run the testsuite with -m68000 to -m68060.  This should
catch any code generation bugs that depend on the specific CPU.

Bugs where the compiler is emitting instructions not valid
for a specific cpu should also be catched by as, so I don't
need to test on different hardware.

Automated regression testing for ColdFire will unfortunately
remain impossible: code generated with -m5200 will generally
not run on a 680x0.

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