Re: [RFC] Decimal Floating Point support for GDB (Part 2: testcase)

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:28:07PM +0800, Wu Zhou wrote:
> In this testcase, there are totally 83 tests.  Most of them are about 
> displaying and setting of dfp types, which are partitioned into 
> three groups, one for each dfp types (_Decimal32, _Decimal64 and 
> _Decimal128).  In each group, we first begin with the printing of 
> a normal finite dfp value, then Infinity and NaN. Then we call 
> d32_set_tests (d64_set_tests or d128_set_tests) to test that GDB 
> could handle the setting different values of variable d32 (d64 or 
> d128).
> 
> At the end of the testcase, we test that GDB could print out the dfp
> values correctly in the function arguments and backtrace.

Just a few comments on the tests:

- This should be at least two separate tests, since the "p 1.5df" tests
can be run without a GCC which supports DFP, even though dfp-test.c
can't be compiled.

- C files need to have copyright headers.

In this:

> +     gdb_test "p d32=123.45df" "123.45df" "p d32=123.45df"

- The third argument to gdb_test defaults to the first argument, so you
don't need it.

- The second argument should be more specific.  Something like
"\$${decimal} = 123.45df".  I went to look at this test to see if my
understanding of the use of string types was right, and the matching
patterns were so loose I couldn't tell.

Otherwise I'll wait to look at this further until we're agreed on the
GDB support.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC