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Re: [PATCH 0/3] callfuncs.exp: Execute with and without prototypes
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Andreas Arnez <arnez at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, dje at google dot com, sandra at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:50:28 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] callfuncs.exp: Execute with and without prototypes
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On 11/04/2014 03:40 PM, Andreas Arnez wrote:
> We've seen that GCC's switch of the default C language standard to
> GNU11 leads to many diagnostics in the GDB test suite. Thus I've
> posted a patch series for fixing them:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-10/msg00802.html
>
> Among other changes, the series eliminates all #ifdef PROTOTYPES
> conditionals as well as the associated old-style function header
> variants. Obviously this may reduce the test coverage of GDB's
> support for old-style C code. Thus it was suggested to leave *some*
> old-style code intact. One candidate is the 'callfuncs' test case,
> which may even make sense to test with both variants. See:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-11/msg00035.html
>
> This small series performs the suggested change to callfuncs.exp.
This looks good to me.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves