On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 at 17:50, Alexandre Oliva via Libstdc++ <
libstdc++@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

>
> We're getting regressions after ugprading to GDB 13 in a few of the
> libstdc++ pretty-printing tests.  It might seem like a GDB regression,
> but that update has a new symbol reader, and Tom Tromey says it
> exposes a latent problem in the pretty-printer, namely, when a name is
> not defined locally in the local translation unit, GDB will look for
> it in other units, and if multiple different definitions are
> available, there are no guarantees as to which one it will find.
>
> Since libstdc++ contains units in which std::string maps to different
> types, in order to ensure the tests get the std::string definition we
> expect, we need std::string to be present in the debug information for
> the test itself, as we already do in other tests.
>
> Regstrapped on x86_64-linux-gnu.  Ok to install?
>

OK, thanks.