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Re: New failures in gdb.c++ testsuites
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: New failures in gdb.c++ testsuites
- From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:23:07 -0500 (EST)
- cc: <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Michael Snyder wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm suddenly seeing a whole bunch of new testsuite failures in the
> gdb.c++ testsuite, and the first one or two that I've looked closely
> at have to do with whitespace. The test will say something like:
>
> ptype class foo
>
> and the output will say something like blah blah blah "(const int&)"
> instead of "const int &)" for instance.
>
> I don't know whether this represents a change in mangling,
Likely this one. new-abi demangling uses a completely seperate demangler,
so ti's likely the spacing is completely different.
> or
> a change in gdb's output routines, but will anybody object if
> I go thru the affected testsuite scripts and make them more
> forgiving with respect to whitespace?
Object? You'd be my hero.
>
> Michael
>