Re: [RFC/testsuite] Update "info float" output for i386

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at chello dot nl>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:

> I'm still in testsuite maintenance mode, for a little while longer.  I'm on
> the home stretch for GCC 2.95.3 + stabs; as soon as I finish, I'll do my
> monthly apt-get dist-upgrade, the default compiler on my Debian machine will
> change to GCC 3.2 + DWARF-2, and I'll be right back where I started at
> dozens of failures.  But I'll have a tremendous sense of accomplishment!

For what it's worth, I will continue to use my i386-unknown-freebsd4.7
system, which has GCC 2.95.4 with stabs as my primary development
machine for the foreseeable future.  This GCC 2.95.4 is the default
compiler on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE which, to be honest, I've patched to
fix a debug info generation problem caused by the FreeBSD-specific
modifications.

> Some time ago Mark Kettenis updated i387-tdep.c to use frame_register_read
> for "info float".  This changed the result of "info float" with no running
> program; I think for the better, and so did he, if I recall rightly.  Can
> anyone think of a reason not to update the testsuite correspondingly, as
> with the attached patch?

At the time I checked in that patch, I did submit a patch to the testsuite:

   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-11/msg00278.html

Unfortunately it seems to have fallen between the cracks, and I
totally forgot about it; it has been happily sitting in my tree ever
since :-(.  I sort-of prefer my patch over yours.  Should I check it
in without Fernando's approval?

Mark