Re: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 02:03:30PM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > 
> > Michael Snyder wrote:
> > >
> > > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I patched the test constvars.exp to get rid of the $gcc_compiled
> > > > compile dependencies which result in XFAIL behaviour when the
> > > > tests are compiled with GCC.  AFAICS, they aren't needed if just
> > > > the tests are more correct.
> > > >
> > > > E.g., the testsuite expects strings like "unsigned long" while
> > > > gdb may also emit "long unsigned" or "long unsigned int".
> > > >
> > > > The below patch cares for that.
> > > >
> > > > Corinna
> > >
> > > The test was originally submitted by HP, and probably
> > > worked only with the HP compiler.  I like the idea of
> > > extending itto work with GCC, but I wonder -- will this
> > > work with stabs?  Or only with dwarf?
> > >
> > > And if it won't work with stabs -- do we care?
> > >
> > 
> > Can someone please help us and try it with stabs?
> 
> OK, I've tried it.  Alas, it does not work.  And native Linux
> still uses stabs, so that means we care.  ;-(  Sorry, Corinna.
> It's a good change, but we need some kind of test that applies
> the xfails for stabs and not for dwarf.
> 
> In the meantime, if you want to just check in the regular expression
> changes, I'm sure that would be OK -- it would preserve your work.

Ok, I've checked in the regular expression changes alone.

Corinna

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