[PATCH] D: Fix crash when expression debugging
Simon Marchi
simon.marchi@polymtl.ca
Thu Jan 5 16:13:00 GMT 2017
>>>>>> +if { [skip_d_tests] } { continue }
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We should output a message:
>>>>>
>>>>> untested "skipping d language tests"
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be more reasonable to just return instead of continuing? The
>>>>> effect
>>>>> will probably be the same, but it is a bit confusing to read
>>>>> "continue"
>>>>> without a visible loop.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I did a quick grep, and it seems like everyone is skippingtests in
>>>> this way except for gdb.ada and gdb.btrace which are doing { return
>>>> -1
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> That's a bit of a stretch. Take, for example, a few of the examples
>>> in
>>> gdb.base. You will see a number of them returning.
>>>
>>> The problem here is inheriting past confusing practices when we use
>>> some
>>> existing files to create new ones, which is not your fault really.
>>> I'm
>>> guilty myself. :-)
>>>
>>
>> Yes indeed. I wasn't disagreeing, just questioning the two competing
>> ways of returning.
>>
>> I will update to use return and push this in then if there's no
>> disagreement. :-)
>>
>
> Hopefully someone will chime in for a second opinion. :-)
+1 :)
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