From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17819 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2004 14:20:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17807 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2004 14:20:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.170.238) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2004 14:20:50 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BD92B9F; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:20:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4087D4BA.4010605@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:27:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: Question about args.exp test References: <20040421164040.GS1307@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040421184448.GB5956@nevyn.them.org> <20040422073334.GC1486@cygbert.vinschen.de> <20040422133011.GA16463@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20040422133011.GA16463@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00132.txt.bz2 > 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