PATCH to testsuite/gdb.c++/namespace.exp
Michael Elizabeth Chastain
mec@shout.net
Thu Jan 10 10:06:00 GMT 2002
Michael Snyder wrote:
> Would it not be better, then, if the test accepted both
> \0 and \000?
I thought about that. It would be better; and if I had written the
patch, I would have written it that way.
But there's so much to do in C++ land, and so little time, that I'd
rather let it be. I'm 100x more worried about things like this:
# native i686-pc-linux-gnu
# gdb HEAD (2001-12-22)
# gcc 2.95.3
# -gdwarf-2
print this^M
$1 = (A * const) 0xa^M
(gdb) PASS: gdb.c++/method.exp: print this (in foo)
gdb is printing an incorrect value and the testsuite does not catch it.
This is a bug in gdb and a shortfall in the testsuite and it affects
real users.
I am organizing my life so that I have more time to care about bugs
like that. That means conserving attention on lesser things, to their
detriment. It's an attention-triage question.
But if this issue bothers you enough to submit a patch, I will approve it.
Michael C
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