Re: [rfa/testsuite] more tests in gdb.c++/m-static

[David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>]

In article <20020816213122.GA12044@nevyn.them.org>, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:19:35PM -0700, David Carlton wrote:

>> * What's the convention for submitting new files (as opposed to
>> patches to existing files)?  (I'd look through the mail archive for
>> examples, but I don't seem to be able to access it right now.)  I'm
>> attaching them below as files and hoping that the mailer will make
>> it clear what they're named and so forth; please let me know if I
>> should do anything else.

> I usually use diff -N to do this.

Makes sense.

> Oh, and you might want to use namespace names that aren't in the
> implementation space (__gnu is in the implementation space, because
> it starts with two underscores.  _[A-Z] is also reserved.)

Thanks for the tip.  I inherited that from the pre-existing
m-static.cc file; to be honest, I have no idea why that file uses
namespaces at all, let alone namespaces beginning with two
underscores.  But if I add more tests myself, I'll make sure to avoid
such underscores.

David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu