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Re: A brief analysis of the arm-elf failures for gdb
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: drow at mvista dot com, Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:24:32 -0600
- Subject: Re: A brief analysis of the arm-elf failures for gdb
re> FAIL: gdb.base/ptype.exp: ptype t_char_array
re> FAIL: gdb.base/ptype.exp: ptype func_type
re>
re> Neither of the above types are emitted in dwarf2 debug formats by gcc if
re> they are not used. We need some data object with that type to make this
re> test useful.
I saw these as regressions with gcc HEAD. They PASSed with
gcc HEAD on 2003-02-27 and FAILed with gcc HEAD on 2003-03-15.
The tests PASSed with gcc 2.95.3, gcc 3.2.2, gcc gcc-3_2-branch,
and gcc gcc-3_3-branch.
drow> Definitely a test bug.
That's good news. So it looks like gcc HEAD has gotten sharper about
generating type definitions, exposing a latent problem in the test.
Michael C