From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 91189 invoked by alias); 25 Mar 2019 18:37:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 91179 invoked by uid 89); 25 Mar 2019 18:37:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy= X-HELO: simark.ca Received: from simark.ca (HELO simark.ca) (158.69.221.121) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 18:37:42 +0000 Received: by simark.ca (Postfix, from userid 112) id C73DF1E790; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:37:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from simark.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by simark.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E8F1E4A2; Mon, 25 Mar 2019 14:37:39 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 18:37:00 -0000 From: Simon Marchi To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com Subject: Re: GDB version as convenience variable In-Reply-To: References: <20181128001435.12703-1-tom@tromey.com> <83k1kxfzwo.fsf@gnu.org> <8736rja4i8.fsf@tromey.com> <83r2brhw8k.fsf@gnu.org> <87h8cmh1wg.fsf@tromey.com> <83va12gz8j.fsf@gnu.org> <87mumeb935.fsf@tromey.com> <83d0n8eyzw.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0n6adk2.fsf@tromey.com> <83imwyee29.fsf@gnu.org> <87d0n67d29.fsf@tromey.com> <83imwwc7pj.fsf@gnu.org> <83k1gts5it.fsf@gnu.org> <83r2aun9mk.fsf@gnu.org> <9d445bd2-28dd-be84-5414-510e061e4db1@simark.ca> <83mulin7ui.fsf@gnu.org> Message-ID: <5435acfafcb7dc4c4f1dae2fcd686a09@simark.ca> X-Sender: simark@simark.ca User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.3.6 X-SW-Source: 2019-03/txt/msg00559.txt.bz2 On 2019-03-25 14:33, Simon Marchi wrote: > On 2019-03-25 14:10, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Is it worth having a test for that? >> >> Hmm... how would you test that? > > Something like > > gdb_test "print \$_gdb_major" " = 8" > gdb_test "print \$_gdb_minor" " = 4" > > Simon Or, the test could somehow automatically get the current version of GDB and compare $_gdb_major/$_gdb_minor against that, so that we don't need to modify it at every release. Simon