Re: C++ FAIL counts and the effect of demangler fix

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-02-14T08:49:00Z

Hi Andrew,

I was so tired last night that all I could post was the raw numbers.

> BTW, we don't have to get back to anything. As far as I know, the
> failures are being caused by an unlreased version of GCC that has
> changed its mangler ABI in some incompatible way.

Column #2 is gcc CVS version plus a gdb that *includes* Daniel Berlin's
patch to fix demangler compatibility. This shows that gdb has other
v3 abi problems besides the changes induced by the demangler.

I don't know what those problems are. It requires someone to roll
up their sleeves and analyze gdb.log files. I have time to do one
of these per week. I'm working in order of "most FAILs first" and
I'm on cplusfuncs.exp.

> It would be nice if the problems were resolved, however, they are _NOT_
> a 5.1 release criteria so not especially high on my radar. 5.1 needs
> to work with real compilers installed on real machines.

I respectfully disagree. I think gdb 5.1 needs to be ready for gcc 3.0.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<chastain@redhat.com>
"love without fear"