Re: C++ FAIL counts and the effect of demangler fix

[Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain at cygnus dot com>]

Hi Andrew,

I was so tired last night that all I could post was the raw numbers.

> BTW, we don't have to get back to anything.  As far as I know, the
> failures are being caused by an unlreased version of GCC that has
> changed its mangler ABI in some incompatible way.

Column #2 is gcc CVS version plus a gdb that *includes* Daniel Berlin's
patch to fix demangler compatibility.  This shows that gdb has other
v3 abi problems besides the changes induced by the demangler.

I don't know what those problems are.  It requires someone to roll
up their sleeves and analyze gdb.log files.  I have time to do one
of these per week.  I'm working in order of "most FAILs first" and
I'm on cplusfuncs.exp.

> It would be nice if the problems were resolved, however, they are _NOT_
> a 5.1 release criteria so not especially high on my radar.  5.1 needs
> to work with real compilers installed on real machines.

I respectfully disagree.  I think gdb 5.1 needs to be ready for gcc 3.0.

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
<chastain@redhat.com>
"love without fear"