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Re: gcc 3.4 regression in gdb.cp/namespace.exp


On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 09:39:21PM -0500, Michael Chastain wrote:
> David Carlton writes:
> 
>   ptype CClass::NestedClass
>   There is no field named NestedClass
>   (gdb) FAIL: gdb.cp/namespace.exp: ptype CClass::NestedClass
> 
> This has been working fine for me with gdb HEAD, suite HEAD, gcc HEAD,
> -gdwarf-2 since 2004-01-23.  I got some FAILs on 2004-01-18 and
> 2004-01-19.

Have you run it since I committed the process_structure_scope patch on
Saturday?  I won't have time to really parse David's explanation for a
couple of days but it sounds like I broke this.

> 
> Do you really need gcc 3.5.0 20040119?
> Can you try gcc 3.5.0 20040315 for example?
> 
> > I really hate the way we test our DWARF 2 reader - there's no way to
> > generate the debug info by hand to give a particular scenario, so
> > instead we have to hope that we can find the magic version of GCC and
> > magic way of writing a test case to trigger the bug in question.
> > Sigh.
> 
> Can we write a gdb.dwarf-2 that looks like gdb.stabs,
> with assembly language input in it?
> 
> Michael C
> 

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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