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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: try_catch.cc -> try-catch.cc
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 01:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020530050043.GA9539@branoic.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CF59D43.4050201@cygnus.com>

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:32:19PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >I actually thought about that.  :)  I believe this section applies:
> >
> >  http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdbint_16.html#SEC157
> >  The source language programs do @emph{not} need to be in a consistent
> >  style.  Since @value{GDBN} is used to debug programs written in many 
> >  different
> >  styles, it's worth having a mix of styles in the testsuite; for
> >  instance, some @value{GDBN} bugs involving the display of source lines 
> >  would
> >  never manifest themselves if the programs used GNU coding style
> >  uniformly.
> >
> >I know it's unlikely that gdb will ever have a bug where it can't
> >handle '_' in a filename.  (Although gdb does have filename completion).
> >It's more the principle of keeping the test suite programs diverse
> >and uncanonicalized.
> 
> (GDB will have bugs where it thinks try-catch.cc is `try - catch.cc' :-)
> 
> >I'll change it if you want it changed, though.
> 
> I see your point.  I think here the question is more one of keeping the 
> test focused on exercising a specific feature - try/catch - rather than 
> a coding style issue.
> 
> Anyway, your call. (Hmm, we desperatly need some file name completer 
> tests including some containing spaces.)

I don't think CVS will let us get away with that, and I'm even more
sure djgpp will gripe.  We'd need to create them at testsuite time,
which is tricky...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-30  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-29 12:01 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-29 20:46 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-30  1:42   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-29 22:00 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-29 10:08 Andrew Cagney

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