Re: [rfa/testsuite] check sizeof

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> Stan Shebs wrote:
> >
> > Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > The attatched checks that GDB and the running program agree over how
> > > large a few basic C types are.  As a convenience, it also dumps out the
> > > gdbarch so that tracking down failures is easier.
> >
> > Geez, I must have missed something along the way - normally GDB gets
> > its size info from debug bits in the executable, which means that it
> > should be impossible for these tests to fail?  But assuming that
> > something changed to make it more likely, the tests themselves look
> > satisfactory as the way to discover the discrepancy.
> 
> What about all those implementer-defined consts like
> TARGET_PTR_BIT and TARGET_INT_BIT?

Yep.

Having the test, has another useful effect.  Since they are being
verified as part of the testsuite, I'm going to tweek multi-arch so that
it providesdefault values.  At present it requires a definition.  I'll
see what other tests I can cook up so that other bits can also be
defaulted.

	Andrew