Re: Question about args.exp test

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

> On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 09:33:34AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>>> On Apr 21 14:44, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>>> > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 06:40:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>
>>>>> > > Why is args.exp expecting two apostrophes and who's supposed to add them?
>>>>> > > The args testapplication apparently isn't.
>>>
>>>> > 
>>>> > IIRC, the comments are wrong.  The tests can not be fixed for the ARM
>>>> > simulator, though - I spent several days trying.  Trace the path that
>>>> > argv takes through from the GDB prompt to the inferior main(), if you
>>>> > want some gruesome entertainment:
>>>> >   - it is word split by GDB before invoking the sim
>>>> >   - it is reconstructed into a string by the sim/RDI interface
>>>> >   - it is word split again in either newlib or libgloss, in handwritten
>>>> >     assembly
>>>> > 
>>>> > The interface simply does not permit properly quoted arguments.
>>
>>> 
>>> Uh, that explains it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the description,
> 
> 
> Should probably be xfail'd for arm-elf.  I never did because,
> conceptually, someone could be testing arm-elf with a different target
> than the simulator and a differently protocol than RDI and a different
> library than newlib - but in practice I doubt anyone does, so if you
> want to stick a comment and some xfails in...

It's a bug.  There's nothing stopping someone fixing the sim target.

Andrew