From 6984bd861cc595e56d26ea033851d9174e855129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Himanshu Sahdev aka CunningLearner <sahdev.himan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:57:13 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] as: facilitate tests based on /dev/null
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Sahdev <himanshusah@hcl.com>
--- a/gas/as.c
+++ b/gas/as.c
@@ -1385,13 +1385,14 @@
   char ** argv_orig = argv;
   struct stat sob;
 
+  const char *dev_null_file="/dev/null";
   gas_early_init (&argc, &argv);
 
   /* Call parse_args before gas_init so that switches like
      --hash-size can be honored.  */
   parse_args (&argc, &argv);
 
-  if (argc > 1 && stat (out_file_name, &sob) == 0)
+  if (argc > 1 && stat (out_file_name, &sob) == 0 && strcmp(out_file_name,dev_null_file)!=0)
     {
       int i;