Re: [RFA] Fix an error in value_change_enclosing_type

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

muller@cerbere.u-strasbg.fr writes:
 > At 17:05 18/10/2002 -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > >Pierre Muller writes:
 > > > 
 > > > 
 > > > 
 > > > the function value_change_enclosing_type
 > > > does not set the enlclosing_type field correctly if
 > > > the new_encl_type has a bigger length that the value type.
 > > > 
 > > > Its seems quite astonishing that this has not been noticed before, 
 > > > but I discovered it when trying to get 
 > > > the fpc-abi.c code to work correctly.
 > > > 
 > >
 > >The fix seems OK. However, do you have a small testcase? It would be
 > >good to add it to the testsuite.
 > Sorry, but I don't have any, because I really don't even know
 > if this code is ever executed for C code. It is for
 > Free Pascal generated code, that is how I discovered that bug.
 > But I can't add tests with Free Pascal anyhow.
 > 

Oh, ok.

 > >Does this fix changes the results for the already existing tests?
 > 
 > Sorry, but I never worked with the testsuite,
 > so I can't answer this question.
 > 

Could you run make check in your gdb/testsuite directory in the build
tree?  All I meant is, whether or not the test results are different
before and after your change.

thanks
Elena