[PATCH,testsuite]Make test pr36227 reflect target pointer size

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Sun Jun 22 16:55:00 GMT 2008


On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, NightStrike wrote:

> This is related to the size_t / intptr_t discussions that keep coming
> up.  Is there a gcc coding convention that says somewhere -- "Use
> intptr_t for pointer sizes"?  There's still a lot of assumptions that
> long = pointer size, and how those are fixed should be consistent.
> This patch proposes one way, Kai's various patches in other areas have
> proposed another way, and discussions on those things I think have
> pointed to using autoconf to figure out of intptr_t is available and
> use that before doing anything else.

Use of autoconf is more or less necessary for the host.  This is a 
testcase patch, and requirements for testcases are completely different 
from those for host code or target libraries, and testcases do not need to 
follow coding conventions (in fact, I think GDB recommends that GDB 
testcases do not follow a uniform style).  For existing testcases, what's 
important is to change as little as possible what the test tests on 
targets where it's already a correct test.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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