[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] fate.sh: Allow overriding what targets to make for running the tests

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le torstaina 30. marraskuuta 2023, 17.34.31 EET Martin Storsjö a écrit :
> Yeah, I wouldn't reuse an existing build here. For the setup I have in
> mind, one build doesn't take too horribly long (either on an old desktop
> x86 machine, or a moderate aarch64 server) - so it's not ideal but not a
> dealbreaker anyway (while running all of fate with qemu takes one
> magnitude longer).

Well it's pretty much a deal breaker for Armv9 and RV. I can understand 
wanting to build on a comfy x86 server, but doing different builds just to 
change QEMU CPU flags is IMO inept.

Sure, we could just build once and run several times checkasm with a separate 
script, as I already pointed out. But then this patch is completely 
unnecessary.

> For the other setup I intended to test, to test AArch64 PAC and BTI, I
> would do a separate build with -mbranch-protection=standard anyway.

That does not make much sense to me. PAC and BTI should be enabled by default 
in compatibility mode (for ARMv8.0-8.2 builds) or noncompatibility mode (for 
ARMv8.3+ builds). The resulting code should be tested with and without PAC and 
with and without BTI.

Separate builds only might make sense if you want to do something more fancy 
with PAC, requiring the non-HINT instructions, but then that is beyond 
"standard" branch protection. For BTI, there are no reasons whatsoever to make 
separate builds; it's a literal waste of time and energy.

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