Re: [rfa/testsuite] Don't display values in output of pc-fp.exp

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> On Tue, 05 Nov 2002 17:54:27 -0500, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> said:
> 
> 
>>> The tests in pc-fp.exp display the actual values of $pc and $fp in
>>> their PASS messages.  That makes regression testing a bit more
>>> annoying for me: the value of $fp changes with every change I make
>>> to GDB.  Is it okay to tweak the PASS messages not to display those
>>> values?
> 
> 
>> As far as I know, anything in trailing paren should be ignored when
>> comparing test results.  You might want to tweak your script (I've
>> attached mine) to do this.
> 
> 
> Wow: your script is complicated.  I just do
> 
>   diff -u (first file) (second file) | grep -v schedlock
> 
> I could do something more complicated than that, of course; on the
> other hand, I'm still not convinced that I should.  It seems to me
> that details like the value of the variables in question shouldn't be
> in gdb.sum: if I want that level of information, I'll look in gdb.log.
> I think there's a virtue in having gdb.sum in a format that's easily
> checkable without worrying about parsing issues: the easier it is to
> do regression testing, the more often it will happen.

Ah, you've never had to cross compare 64 different targets to check that 
their results are equivalent :-)

Andrew