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To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Avoid using sprintf in the testsuite
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
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Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> writes:

> Using sprintf in the testsuite causes problems with the upcoming
> OpenBSD 3.7.  The warning about its usuge printed by the linker makes
> us think the compilation failed.  [...]

Perhaps instead gdb's testsuite should adopt gcc's warning-pruning
code: see for example gcc/testsuite/lib/prune.exp.

- FChE