From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15028 invoked by alias); 22 Apr 2004 14:57:29 -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 14946 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2004 14:57:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.157.170.238) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 22 Apr 2004 14:57:25 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7365D2BA0; Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:57:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4087DD4B.30805@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:19:00 -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> <4087D4BA.4010605@gnu.org> <20040422142738.GA17823@nevyn.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20040422142738.GA17823@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00136.txt.bz2 >>>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. > > > Did you read my reply at all? The sim complies with the RDI mechanism > of passing information and syscalls to inferior programs. The > mechanism is incapable of handling quoted arguments. I don't think it > can be fixed. I didn't say it was easy. All simulators should consistently handle parameters in their _default_ mode. At present they don't, and thats a bug. If a simulator gets set to `rdi' mode then it probably won't work. Andrew