From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22345 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2002 21:37:08 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 22336 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2002 21:37:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jackfruit.Stanford.EDU) (171.64.38.136) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Aug 2002 21:37:08 -0000 Received: (from carlton@localhost) by jackfruit.Stanford.EDU (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g7GLb7N24089; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:37:07 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: jackfruit.Stanford.EDU: carlton set sender to carlton@math.stanford.edu using -f To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfa/testsuite] more tests in gdb.c++/m-static References: <20020816213122.GA12044@nevyn.them.org> Cc: carlton@math.stanford.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: David Carlton Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:37:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20020816213122.GA12044@nevyn.them.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2002-08/txt/msg00459.txt.bz2 In article <20020816213122.GA12044@nevyn.them.org>, Daniel Jacobowitz 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