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Re: [PATCH RFA] testsuite changes needed for AIX 4.3


On Feb 15,  3:44pm, Stan Shebs wrote:

> Kevin Buettner wrote:
> > 
> > I hereby reqest approval for committing the following changes:
> > 
> >         * gdb.base/pointers.c (usevar): New function.
> >         (main): Make sure that global variables v_int_pointer2, rptr,
> >         and y are all referenced someplace in the program by calling
> >         usevar() on them.  [Some linkers delete symbols which are
> >         never referenced.  The space remains, but there's no way to
> >         get a (symbolic) handle on the variable from the debugger.]
> > 
> >         * gdb.base/scope.exp: For powerpc-*-*, xfail the same tests
> >         that rs6000-*-* does.
> 
> This looks reasonable to me, with the same question as Mark Kettenis
> raises: are the xfails unconditional because the tests fail whether
> xlc or gcc is used as the compiler?  If they pass with xlc, then you
> need to test gcc_compiled.

Okay.  As soon as I get the rest of my patches from the branch I was
working on merged in, I was going to do a build from sourceware.  I'll
test with xlc then.  (The machine that I had been working on didn't
have xlc on it, or if it did, I couldn't find it.)

Also, I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me why these
xfails are necessary.  (I haven't looked hard at the problem; I
just noticed that these tests were xfailed for rs6000, and I was
getting FAILs on powerpc, so it seemed reasonable to xfail them
for powerpc too.)

Kevin

-- 
Kevin Buettner
kev@primenet.com, kevinb@redhat.com

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