From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Berlin To: Michael Snyder Cc: "Peter.Schauer" , Fernando Nasser , chastain@cygnus.com, fnasser@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] testsuite/gdb.c++/ref-types.exp: use runto Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:49:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3AB2A2F0.12AEB01A@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00309.html On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael Snyder wrote: > Daniel Berlin wrote: > > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Peter.Schauer wrote: > > > > > If you look at the CVS history of these tests, you will note that not all of > > > those tests were XFAIL'ed in the past. > > > > > > gdb-4.17/gcc-2.8.1 handled most of these tests just fine, and they got > > > broken by the HP snowball, so it's not simply a matter of old-abi. > > > > The C++ ABI has changed since 2.8.1 (3 times since then, IIRC), in ways > > that break gdb. > > When are we going to stop doing that??? > The 3.0 ABI will be around for a *long* time. It's been agreed to by multiple vendors (It's also the official C++ ABI for IA64), so it's not really going to change for a long time. --Dan