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Re: dbxout.c patch for PR 1621
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Jim Wilson <wilson at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 12:02:37 -0500
- Subject: Re: dbxout.c patch for PR 1621
- References: <xwuu1hilmx2.fsf@tonopah.toronto.redhat.com>
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 08:36:57PM -0500, Jim Wilson wrote:
> I checked in this patch to correct problems with stabs debug info for complex
> types, as reported in PR 1621.
>
> This was tested with an i686-linux bootstrap, testsuite run, and gdb testsuite
> run.
>
> I got nondeterministic behaviour from the libjava and gdb testsuites, but there
> were no regressions due to this patch.
>
> The libjava testsuite appears to have some load sensitive tests.
> Thread_Interrupt.java in the libjava.lang directory reads the system clock
> to calibrate itself. I suspect that it can fail if the load changes while
> the test is running. I was running tests in parallel, and sometimes this
> test worked and sometimes it didn't.
>
> When running the gdb tests, I got errors due to "Unknown signal" which
> shouldn't happen. When I reran them, they worked, but I got one less failure
> in gdb.threads with my patch which doesn't make any sense. I didn't look into
> this. Probably an obscure problem with the gdb testsuite.
Yes, that's what it is.
Would you mind applying this patch to the GCC 3.2.2 branch also?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer