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Re: [PING global maintainer/testsuite expert] Re: [patch bfd]: Win32 coff-i386 and coff-x86_64 broken in_reloc_p
2010/3/31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>:
> * Kai Tietz wrote on Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 09:05:28PM CEST:
>> 2010/3/31 Ralf Wildenhues:
>> > wc -c is POSIX and portable, but you cannot be sure about the amount of
>> > whitespace in the output: for example, IRIX, AIX, Tru64, FreeBSD,
>> > OpenBSD wc produce varying amounts of leading whitespace, GNU doesn't.
>> > Does tcl strip that? ?Otherwise, if all you're trying to find out is
>> > whether a file is nonempty or not, testing the exit status of shell
>> > 'test -s' works.
>
>> There are no whitespaces. It is an binary file-format and no text.
>
> I was talking about the output of
> $ wc -c somefile
>
> which can be either of
> ? ?1204 somefile
> ? ? ?1204 somefile
> ? ? ? ? ?1204 somefile
> 1204 somefile
>
> not the contents of "somefile". ?I haven't checked TABs vs. spaces.
Ah, ok. Sorry, I got this wrong. I am not sure if 'string match' trims
for white-spaces.
>> Well here in this test the generated file has size of zero bytes. So
>> test -s works?
>
> Yes, it should work, but I don't know if you can call shell commands
> from the testsuite at that point.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>
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