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Re: [rfa/testsuite] more selftest.exp tweaking
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:21:59 -0500, Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> said:
> David, it is approved but please change the comment to state which
> compiler version you've seem this order.
Thanks, will do.
> P.S.: What I am hoping is that one day in the future we can get rid
> of some cases for very old compilers. The comments will make it
> easier. This is not a serious enough condition for adding an 'if'
> on the compiler version, me thinks...
No. Unfortunately, I think that this particular problem will get
worse with future compilers, not better: instruction reordering by
compilers will only increase as optimizers get trickier.
Committed; patch is below.
David Carlton
carlton@math.stanford.edu
2003-01-15 David Carlton <carlton@math.stanford.edu>
* gdb.base/selftest.exp (do_steps_and_nexts): Allow gdb_sysroot.
Index: selftest.exp
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/selftest.exp,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -p -r1.6 selftest.exp
--- selftest.exp 23 Dec 2002 16:56:25 -0000 1.6
+++ selftest.exp 15 Jan 2003 17:32:33 -0000
@@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ proc do_steps_and_nexts {} {
set description "step over current_directory initialization"
set command "step"
}
+ -re ".*gdb_sysroot = .*$gdb_prompt $" {
+ # NOTE: carlton/2003-01-15: More optimization reordering,
+ # observed on GCC 3.1.
+ set description "step over gdb_sysroot initialization"
+ set command "step"
+ }
-re "\[ \t\]+\{\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {
setup_xfail "mips-*-irix5*"
fail "$description ended up at odd location"