2014-11-28 12:21 GMT+01:00 Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de>: > Hi Kai, > >> this patch skips some test, which are trying to test non-existing >> weak-variant for mingw-targets. > > why is this necessary when most (all?) of those tests already have > dg-require-weak? If there's some property of weak variables that > PE-COFF lacks, I'd rather have a new effective-target keyword that tests > for this. > > Rainer
As pe-coff indeed has some weak support in linker, but not that expected by those tests. So in general it would be wrong to disable weak completely, nevertheless are those tests not working for pe-coff mingw targets. Kai
