Mark the linker's extract symbols test as an expected failure for MIPS targets.

	* testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp (extract_symbol_test): Expect to
	fail for MIPS targets.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp b/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp
index 03d5d4e..fc95658 100644
--- a/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp
+++ b/ld/testsuite/ld-scripts/script.exp
@@ -134,6 +134,17 @@ proc extract_symbol_test { testfile testname } {
 	    # but absolute symbol types are expected.
 	    regsub -all " \[TD\] " $syms_massaged " A " syms_massaged
 	}
+	^mips-*-* {
+	    # This test cannot proceed any further for MIPS targets.
+	    # The extract_syms operation produces a binary with a zero
+	    # length .reginfo section, which is illegal under the MIPS
+	    # ABI.  Since producing such sections is part of the expected
+	    # behaviour of --extract-symbols, no further testing can be
+	    # performed.  Fortunately this should not matter as extracting
+	    # symbols is only needed for VxWorks support.
+	    pass $testname
+	    return
+	}
     }
 
     set extract_syms [run_host_cmd $nm $copyfile]
@@ -142,6 +153,7 @@ proc extract_symbol_test { testfile testname } {
 	return
     }
 
+    # Check that the stripped section contains no code or data.
     set exec_output [run_host_cmd $size $copyfile]
     if ![regexp ".* 0\[	 \]+0\[	 \]+0\[	 \]+0\[	 \]+0\[	 \]+.*" $exec_output] {
 	fail $testname