Re: [PATCH] Adjust `pc-fp.exp' for ppc64/s390x (PR 12659)

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 09:45:50 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> 
> On 07/31/2012 10:25 PM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> > While regtesting 7.4 against 7.5 branch on ppc64/s390x RHEL 6.3, I
> > noticed this failure.  The patch which introduced this failure was
> > committed because of:
> > 
> >       http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12659
> > 
> > On x86*, the output of `info register pc fp' is:
> > 
> >     info register pc fp
> >     pc: 0x400520
> >     fp: 0x7fffffffc490
> >     (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/pc-fp.exp: info register pc fp
> > 
> > On ppc64/s390x, it is:
> > 
> >     info register pc fp
> >     pc             0x10000658       0x10000658 <main+20>
> >     fp: 0xfffffffd120
> >     (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/pc-fp.exp: info register pc fp
> > 
> > Since this difference in the output does not seem to be an error itself,
> > the patch below just adjusts the testcase to match this kind of output
> > as well.  It does not fail on x86*.
> 
> Why is the output format different?  It looks like consistency here
> would be good.

Indeed.  So I'd say patching up the testsuite for this difference
would be the wrong way to go.