Re: c++/1025: failures in gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>]

The following reply was made to PR c++/1025; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
To: carlton@math.stanford.edu
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: c++/1025: failures in gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:33:33 -0600

 It's all about the binutils.
 
 What binutils are you using?
 
 I had problems with gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp when I used binutils 2.12
 or binutils 2.12.1.  The problems were fixed with binutils 2.13 and
 binutils 2.13.1.  Now I am testing with three versions of binutils:
 binutils 2.13.2.1 + binutils HEAD + binutils 2.13.90.0.2-2-rh.
 
 These were true tests.  I built 8 versions of gcc with 8 versions of
 binutils (it took a LONG time to build 64 compilers), ran 390 test runs,
 and correlated all the non-PASSes.  I observed that this problem was
 correlated with binutils version and not correlated with gcc version.
 
 From my notes, the specific tests affected by binutils 2.12 and
 binutils 2.12.1 were:
 
   gdb.base/condbreak.exp: run until breakpoint at marker1
   gdb.base/condbreak.exp: run until breakpoint at marker2
   gdb.base/ena-dis-br.exp: continue to auto-disabled break marker2
   gdb.base/ena-dis-br.exp: continue to break marker1
   gdb.base/ena-dis-br.exp: continue to break marker1, 2nd time
   gdb.base/funcargs.exp: print st
   gdb.base/funcargs.exp: run to call5a
   gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp: continue to bp overloaded : char
   gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp: continue to bp overloaded : double
   gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp: continue to bp overloaded : short
   gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp: continue to bp overloaded : signed char
   gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp: continue to bp overloaded : unsigned char
   gdb.c++/ovldbreak.exp: continue tp bp overloaded : unsigned short
     ++ happened with binutils 2.12, binutils 2.12.1
     ++ drop binutils 2.12, 2.12.1
 
 Michael C