RFC: Unique testnames
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Mon Sep 17 09:07:00 GMT 2018
Hi Pedro,
> We're pretty anal about this in GDB too, for the same reasons. :-) See:
>
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDBTestcaseCookbook#Make_sure_test_messages_are_unique
Thanks for the reference.
> Note GDB avoids using " (foo)" at end of names as a way to make test
> names unique. Not sure whether that's relevant for binutils:
>
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDBTestcaseCookbook#Do_not_use_.22tail_parentheses.22_on_test_messages
Well the use of parenthesised comments at the end of test names is
failry well established in the binutils now, so I am not going to
change it with this patch. Maybe one day in the future.
Anyway - since there have been no objections, I am going to check
the patch in.
Cheers
Nick
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