Re: [rfa/testsuite] constvars.exp, volatile.exp: hp-ux

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 05:38:49PM -0500, Michael Chastain wrote:
> This patch improves constvars.exp and volatile.exp to work with
> the HP compilers on hp-ux.
> 
> First, there was some code to force use of the HP C++ compiler instead
> of the HP C compiler.  I killed that.  The user decides at a higher
> level which compilers to use for which languages.
> 
> That bit of code wasn't even helping because HP C++ returns a (valid)
> compiler error for constvars.c.  For the curious, this line is
> not valid C++:
> 
>       # Uninitialized const/reference member in class/aggregate.
>       struct crass { char * const ptr; } crass;
> 
> Since ptr itself is const, it can't be changed after it's initialized,
> so it must be initialized.
> 
> I'm not dealing with that right now.  gdb.base/*.c does not have to
> compile with a C++ compiler.
> 
> Second, I removed a duplicate call to get_compiler_info.  That's
> just cleanup.
> 
> Third, in local_compiler_xfail_check, I added setup_xfail for
> $hp_cc_compiler.  The HP Ansi C compiler does not emit const qualifiers,
> so this is really an XFAIL, a limitation in the external compiler.  I
> checked that by stepping through hpread.c by hand.
> 
> Tested on:
> 
>   native hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11, hp ansi c
> 
> Okay to commit?

Yes, this is fine.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer