Re: [RFA] testsuite/gdb.c++/ref-types.exp: use runto

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at cygnus dot com>]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:

> Daniel Berlin writes:
> > Insufficient information, too many possibilities, and
> > too much of a performance hit.
> 
> Well, I'll see the information for myself when I get to virtfunc.exp
> and see whether the stabs have sufficient information or not.
Sigh.

 > 
> As far as "too many possibilities" and "too much of a performance hit"
> goes: those are not good reasons for (a) the software to print wrong
> answers 

Um, what exactly *should* it print?

It doesn't know it's wrong.

You seem to not be getting how virtual function calling works. If we 
could tell we were wrong, we wouldn't have a problem in the first place.

Feel free to implement the code to make it work right, or determine its 
wrong.

With some patches i'm about to submit, the v3 abi passes all of 
virtfunc.cc, and I have no plans to write 1500 lines of code to handle 
all possible v2 cases.

>and then (b) the maintainers to  claim that the software isn't > broken.

Fine, mark them fail. Just put (Won't ever fix for v2 abi) in parentheses.


> 
> Michael
>