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