From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Keating To: shebs@apple.com Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: recent dejagnu changes Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:24:00 -0000 Message-id: <200008082124.OAA05565@localhost.cygnus.com> References: <200008081827.LAA06137@localhost.cygnus.com> <39906503.205B3220@apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00159.html > Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 12:52:32 -0700 > From: Stan Shebs > Since we all have a common interest in making dejagnu work well, > and no benevolent dejagnu dictator to force us to get along :-), > let's try to help each other here. Unfortunately, I've been told that all further communication with Jimmy should go through our HP person, Jim Blandy. So any help with dejagnu is going to have to come from them or be properly scheduled. In the meantime, I've switched my automated tester to manual mode for combined-tree integration, and made its heuristics more paranoid. If I find dejagnu breaks again, I'll just freeze it at the last-known-good version. Hopefully this will limit the damage. -- - Geoffrey Keating >From ac131313@cygnus.com Tue Aug 08 15:42:00 2000 From: Andrew Cagney To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: robert.hoehne@gmx.net, gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Problems with i386_register_convert_to_virtual Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:42:00 -0000 Message-id: <39908C0B.C9F5E165@cygnus.com> References: <200008052252.AAA22962@robby.dittmannsdorf.de> <200008060851.KAA23990@robby.dittmannsdorf.de> <200008080644.CAA02415@indy.delorie.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00160.html Content-length: 801 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > From: Robert Hoehne > > Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 10:52:41 +0200 > > > > After more searching in the GDB code and docs, I found the macro > > REGISTER_CONVERTIBLE which tells, if a register have different > > raw and virtual sizes. This macro is also used for instance in findvar.c > > to decide, if REGISTER_CONVERT_TO_VIRTUAL is called or a > > simple memcpy is done. In my Opionion either this should be documented > > in the description for REGISTER_CONVERT_TO_VIRTUAL that > > this macro should be called only, when REGISTER_CONVERTIBLE > > returns true, or that logic should be included in the convert macro. > > I agree. Does anyone have preferences as to what way of these two is > the best? I'd suggest adjusting the documentation. Andrew >From ac131313@cygnus.com Tue Aug 08 16:53:00 2000 From: Andrew Cagney To: Geoff Keating Cc: guo@cup.hp.com, fnasser@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: recent dejagnu changes Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 16:53:00 -0000 Message-id: <39909BD0.522545A3@cygnus.com> References: <200008081827.LAA06137@localhost.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00161.html Content-length: 792 Geoff, I don't know that pulling Jimmy's dejagnu patch was the best thing to do. In a way it is like me pulling a G++ patch just because it has (yet again :-) broken the GDB/C++ testsuites. If I did that I'd be (understandably) hounded out of town by the GCC team :-(. Instead, what one would hope would happen is  that the groups try to co-operate and resolve problems as soon as they are found. If the GDB team find problems they push patches back to GCC. For DEJAGNU, checking that a change regresses none of GDB, GCC or BINUTILS would be a good thing (tm). However, as things currently stand, this not straight forward. Instead we are reliant on people, such as yourself, identifying problems and reporting them so that they can be fixed (and not reverted :-). enjoy, Andrew >From ac131313@cygnus.com Tue Aug 08 17:00:00 2000 From: Andrew Cagney To: Jimmy Guo Cc: Fernando Nasser , Geoff Keating , gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [RFA] dejagnu runtest.exp redundant testing Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:00:00 -0000 Message-id: <39909DE1.82CB4FB8@cygnus.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00162.html Content-length: 943 Jimmy, As an asside, you (and others) may be interested in the attatched files. It lets you use CVSup to create a merged tree. It may be possible to build / test it - no promises though! Andrew *default date=. all delete release=toplev list=toplev compress prefix=all host=sourceware.cygnus.com compress tag=. all delete release=bfd list=bfd compress prefix=all host=sourceware.cygnus.com compress tag=. all delete release=gdb list=gdb compress prefix=all host=sourceware.cygnus.com compress tag=. all delete release=binutils list=binutils compress prefix=all host=sourceware.cygnus.com compress tag=. all delete release=gcc list=gcc compress prefix=all host=sourceware.cygnus.com compress tag=. all delete release=dejagnu list=dejagnu compress prefix=all host=sourceware.cygnus.com compress tag=. all delete release=newlib list=newlib compress prefix=all host=sourceware.cygnus.com compress tag=. >From guo@cup.hp.com Tue Aug 08 17:04:00 2000 From: Jimmy Guo To: Andrew Cagney Cc: Geoff Keating , fnasser@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: recent dejagnu changes Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:04:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <39909BD0.522545A3@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00163.html Content-length: 785 If I may, let's retire this thread ... there're assumptions and perceptions I made, both in the dejagnu design and in the working process, that caused the dejagnu regression and the following communications that's less than desirable ... and my apologies to the GCC project which wasted time tracking my changes down :) Changes to odd components like dejagnu with little documentation nor visibility (until it breaks) are dangerous. Fortunately I don't have further changes in this area ... as to the couple of patches, I'm sure we can work it through without further disturbance. It's never too much to be reminded that working on a OpenSource project requires extra prudence and patience ... which is something the HP WDB team is prepared to accept. - Jimmy Guo, guo@cup.hp.com