From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10599 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2003 02:00:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10579 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2003 02:00:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 15 Jan 2003 02:00:01 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18YejA-0001iE-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:00:32 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18Ycqv-0003yp-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:00:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 02:00:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC/testsuite] Update "info float" output for i386 Message-ID: <20030115020025.GA15241@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20030114041526.GA1885@nevyn.them.org> <86y95n1bms.fsf@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <86y95n1bms.fsf@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00549.txt.bz2 On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 01:48:27AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > > > I'm still in testsuite maintenance mode, for a little while longer. I'm on > > the home stretch for GCC 2.95.3 + stabs; as soon as I finish, I'll do my > > monthly apt-get dist-upgrade, the default compiler on my Debian machine will > > change to GCC 3.2 + DWARF-2, and I'll be right back where I started at > > dozens of failures. But I'll have a tremendous sense of accomplishment! > > For what it's worth, I will continue to use my i386-unknown-freebsd4.7 > system, which has GCC 2.95.4 with stabs as my primary development > machine for the foreseeable future. This GCC 2.95.4 is the default > compiler on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE which, to be honest, I've patched to > fix a debug info generation problem caused by the FreeBSD-specific > modifications. > > > Some time ago Mark Kettenis updated i387-tdep.c to use frame_register_read > > for "info float". This changed the result of "info float" with no running > > program; I think for the better, and so did he, if I recall rightly. Can > > anyone think of a reason not to update the testsuite correspondingly, as > > with the attached patch? > > At the time I checked in that patch, I did submit a patch to the testsuite: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-11/msg00278.html > > Unfortunately it seems to have fallen between the cracks, and I > totally forgot about it; it has been happily sitting in my tree ever > since :-(. I sort-of prefer my patch over yours. Should I check it > in without Fernando's approval? Aha! I couldn't find it when I went looking. Please ping Fernando about this, now that he's back. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer