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Re: [RFA/testsuite] Test printing complex numbers in C


On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:34:32AM -0500, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> Sorry Daniel, due to a problem with my mail it got lost again.
> 
> I am OK with the new tests (thanks!), but I would like to 
> "setup_xfail_format" them for gcc stabs.  It is a compiler problem, not 
> GDB's, so we should not add the FAILs to our output.
> 
> Can you do that?
> 
> Regards,
> Fernando
> 
> P.S.: You must call "get_debug_format" somewhere before using 
> "setup_xfail_format" if I remember correctly.

Here's the problem...
		stabs		DWARF-2
GCC 2.95	pass		fail
GCC 3.x		fail		pass

So what to do?  I suppose I could add a check for the major version of
GCC in get_compiler_info (?) and condition on that.

> 
> 
> 
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >Fernando,
> >
> >I think this test submission got lost, so here it is again.  It's a test 
> >for
> >the printing of complex numbers in C, for those compilers which support 
> >it. The test is GCC specific right now.
> >
> >[By the way, it fails on GCC 3.0/stabs because of a (probably) GCC bug in
> >debug information.  Still not fixed in 3.2.  It also fails in GCC
> >2.95/DWARF-2 because of a bug with __attribute__((packed)).  We can sort 
> >out
> >XFAILs later, I have some ideas on that front.]
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Fernando Nasser
> Red Hat Canada Ltd.                     E-Mail:  fnasser@redhat.com
> 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300
> Toronto, Ontario   M4P 2C9
> 
> 

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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