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Re: [RFA] Emit a warning for ineffective set VAR = EXP command


On Apr 27, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:

>>>>>> "Tristan" == Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
> 
> Tristan> I simply propose to emit a warning if the expression is not an
> Tristan> assignment (or a comma expression).
> 
> It seems reasonable to me.
> 
> Tristan> Ok for trunk ?
> 
> I think there should be a test case.

Sure.  Is it ok with this testcase ?

Tristan.

gdb/testsuite/
2012-05-02  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>

	* gdb.base/set-noassign.exp: New test.

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/set-noassign.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/set-noassign.exp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d43bfbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/set-noassign.exp
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+
+set testfile start
+set srcfile ${testfile}.c
+set binfile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}
+if  { [gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${srcfile}" "${binfile}" executable {debug}] != "" } {
+    untested "Couldn't compile test program"
+    return -1
+}
+
+# Get things started.
+
+gdb_exit
+gdb_start
+gdb_reinitialize_dir $srcdir/$subdir
+gdb_load ${binfile}
+
+if ![runto_main] then {
+    fail "Can't run to main"
+    return 0
+}
+
+# Verify that set command without assignment emits a warning.
+#
+gdb_test "set x==3" \
+	"warning: Expression is not an assignment \\(and might have no effect\\)" \
+	"warning for set without assignment"


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