Re: [PATCH][libstdc++][Testsuite] isctype test fails for newlib.

[Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>]

Hi,

On 02/02/2015 04:49 PM, Matthew Wahab wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With target arm-none-eabi, the libstdc++ tests 
> 28_regex/traits/char/isctype.cc and 28_regex/traits/wchar/isctype.cc 
> fail at
> --
> VERIFY(!t.isctype('\n', t.lookup_classname(range(blank))));
> --
> This is because libstdc++ puts '\n' in the 'space' character class, 
> rather than 'blank' when building on newlib. This problem was known 
> when suport for the blank character class was added to libstdc++ (see
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-10/msg01902.html) so this 
> failure is not unexpected.
>
> Changes to newlib that would have allowed the problem to be fixed were 
> made (https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2009/msg00342.html) but then 
> reverted (https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2009/msg00438.html).
>
> This patch modifies the test to add a special case for the behaviour 
> with newlib.
>
> Tested by running check-target-libstdc++-v3 - 
> libstdc++-dg/conformance.exp, with the modified tests, for 
> arm-none-eabi and aarch64-none-linux-gnu. No new failures and the 
> modified tests now pass on arm-none-eabi.
>
> Ok for trunk?
I guess the patch is Ok for trunk, but please also add in the comment a 
link to this message of yours, that is 
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-02/msg00059.html.

Thanks,
Paolo.

PS: please remember to always CC libstdc++-v3 patches to 
libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org.