This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [PATCH v2 4/8] Fix test names starting with uppercase using gdb_test_multiple
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:06:28AM -0600, Luis Machado wrote:
> On 11/27/2016 11:09 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 02:54:00PM -0600, Luis Machado wrote:
> >>This fixes offender testcases that have test names starting with uppercase
> >>when using gdb_test_multiple in a single-line construct.
> >>
> >>gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
> >>2016-11-25 Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
> >>
> >> Fix test names starting with uppercase throughout the files.
> >>
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/i386-bp_permanent.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.arch/i386-gnu-cfi.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/disasm-end-cu.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/macscp.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/pending.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/watch_thread_num.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/exception.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/gdb2495.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/local.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-evsignal.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/python.exp
> >> * gdb/testsuite/gdb.trace/tracecmd.exp
> >
> >Drop "gdb/testsuite/". Patch is good to me, but I think we need to
> >enforce a rule in "proc gdb_test_multiple" that test message should
> >start with a lower case letter, emit an ERROR if it starts with
> >uppercase.
> >
>
> Do you mean just for gdb_test_multiple?
Yes,
>
> It can be tricky, since one is still free to start the sentences
> with something like "ARM ..." or some other technology name. So
> unfortunately we can't be too strict. I wish we could.
Do we have some many technology names? We have a white list of these
technology names which can be capitalized in test message.
--
Yao (齐尧)