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| author | Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> | 2002-12-22 02:58:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> | 2002-12-22 02:58:43 +0000 |
| commit | 4c2acfeafe154bef75318a35c1112433d8717cb5 (patch) | |
| tree | b4ff473a5f470fcf59dead7e8c73bb75b12a8dd2 | |
| parent | f5dcdefd1bd11c90b7a0d9afee50100161a9a5b7 (diff) | |
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* gdb.c++/psmang.exp: Doc fix.
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog index d18352a..fa5055d 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2002-12-21 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> + * gdb.c++/psmang.exp: Doc fix. + * gdb.c++/psmang.exp, gdb.c++/psmang1.cc, gdb.c++/psmang2.cc: New test. diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/psmang.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/psmang.exp index f653b0b..31dd346 100644 --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/psmang.exp +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/psmang.exp @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ # Breakpoint 1 at 0x804841b: file psmang1.cc, line 13. # (gdb) # +# We observed this bug first using Stabs, and then using Dwarf 2. +# # The problem was in lookup_symbol_aux: when looking up s::method1, it # would fail to find it in any symtabs, find the minsym with the # corresponding mangled name (say, `_ZN1S7method1Ev'), pass the @@ -118,6 +120,14 @@ # Note that #including any header file at all into both compilation # units --- say, <stdio.h> --- could create this sort of dependency. # +# This is the aspect of the test which the debug format is most likely +# to affect, I think. The different formats create different kinds of +# inter-CU dependencies, which could mask the bug. It might be +# possible for the test to check that at least one of the partial +# symtabs remains unread, and fail otherwise --- the failure +# indicating that the test itself isn't going to catch the bug it was +# meant to, not that GDB is misbehaving. +# # Third twist: given the way lookup_block_symbol is written, it's # possible to find the symbol even when it gets passed a mangled name # for its NAME parameter. There are three ways lookup_block_symbol |