[ was: Re: [PATCH] KFAIL variable-length array tests which fail with Clang ]

On 11/19/20 11:53 PM, Tom de Vries wrote:
> On 11/18/20 5:14 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Benson via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
>>
>> Gary> Clang describes the upper bounds of variable length arrays using
>> Gary> a DW_AT_count attribute which references the DIE of a synthetic
>> Gary> variable whose value is specified using a DW_AT_location.  In
>> Gary> some cases GDB correctly handles these, but in other cases GDB
>> Gary> adds an extra dereference causing the test to fail.  This commit
>> Gary> marks these failing tests as caused by PR gdb/26905 when the
>> Gary> test executable was built using Clang.
>>
>> Shouldn't we just fix the gdb bug instead?
> 
> This adhoc patch:

Here's the complete and tested patch.

Any comments?

Thanks,
- Tom