Re: [rfa/c++testsuite] (was Re: patch for PR gdb/574)

Andrew Cagney
2002-09-27T23:42:22Z

> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:20:14 -0400, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:
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>>> 2002-08-22 David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
>>> * gdb.c++/pr-574.exp: New file.
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>>> * gdb.c++/pr-574.cc: New file.
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>> Suggest a rename to c++/gdb574.*. MI's using that and got in just a
>> tiny bit earlier :-)
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> Grump, grump, grump. Being a lazy person, I will give the following
> justification for my naming scheme: you're proposing to change the PR
> naming category so that that PR would turn into c++574. (Or do
> existing closed PR's not get moved?) So it would make more sense to
> call it gdb.c++/c++574.cc, which sounds silly: the whole directory is
> about C++! And gdb.c++/gdb574.cc is only a little less silly, or
> arguably even sillier: every single file in that directory, in its
> parent, and in the parent of its parent is about GDB, so putting 'gdb'
> in the name of a file is just plain old redundant. Whereas putting
> 'pr' in the name of a file isn't redundant at all.

Arh, the `gdb' is to disguinguish it from gcc, not from other sub
categories :-)

Andrew