Re: [PING global maintainer/testsuite expert] Re: [patch bfd]: Win32 coff-i386 and coff-x86_64 broken in_reloc_p

[Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>]

Hi Dave,

* Dave Korn wrote on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 03:25:02PM CEST:
> [PING]:   Also, I'd like if one of the older hands or someone who knows about
> the testsuite

I'm neither.  At least that's what I keep telling myself.  ;-)

> can confirm it's ok to assume the presence and syntax of 'wc
> -c'?  (I expect it will be, but if it's not, I guess we could change the test
> to use the freshly-built 'size' instead.)

wc -c is POSIX and portable, but you cannot be sure about the amount of
whitespace in the output: for example, IRIX, AIX, Tru64, FreeBSD,
OpenBSD wc produce varying amounts of leading whitespace, GNU doesn't.
Does tcl strip that?  Otherwise, if all you're trying to find out is
whether a file is nonempty or not, testing the exit status of shell
'test -s' works.

Cheers,
Ralf