[PATCH v5 0/7] Clean gdb.base when testing with clang

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Wed Sep 21 16:05:06 GMT 2022


>>>>> "Bruno" == Bruno Larsen via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Bruno> When testing GDB with clang, gdb.base had over 50 more failures than when
Bruno> testing with gcc.  Examining the failed tests led to a few clang bugs, a
Bruno> few GDB bugs, and many testsuite assumptions that could be changed.

Bruno> After this patch series, nothing should be changed for testing with gcc,
Bruno> and testing with clang should only show non-trivial failures for
Bruno> maint.exp and macscp.exp, along with the same GCC failures.

Thanks.  I read through this and it looked good to me.

The use of __attribute__((used)) gave me some pause but I see it's
already in the test suite, so it seemed harmless to add another use.

Tom


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