[RFC] Avoid using sprintf in the testsuite

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl
Sun Mar 20 21:28:00 GMT 2005


   From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
   Date: 17 Mar 2005 16:46:30 -0500

   Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org> writes:

   > Using sprintf in the testsuite causes problems with the upcoming
   > OpenBSD 3.7.  The warning about its usuge printed by the linker makes
   > us think the compilation failed.  [...]

   Perhaps instead gdb's testsuite should adopt gcc's warning-pruning
   code: see for example gcc/testsuite/lib/prune.exp.

Better yet, I should add OpenBSD linker warning pruning to DejaGnu
itself.  Thanks for the suggestion.  I withdraw the patch.

Mark



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