Re: [RFA] Fix pascal behavior for class fields

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 01/08/2015 01:00 PM, Pierre Muller wrote:
>> De : gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
>> owner@sourceware.org] De la part de Pedro Alves
>> Envoyé : jeudi 8 janvier 2015 11:48
>> À : Pierre Muller; 'gdb-patches'
>> Objet : Re: [RFA] Fix pascal behavior for class fields
>>> (gdb) p b.x
>>> warning: can't find linker symbol for virtual table for `TA' value
>>> $5 = -1
>>> (gdb) p x
>>> Type TA has no component named x.
>>> (gdb)
>>
>> How about adding this to the test suite?
> 
> 
>   The whole testsuite/gpc.pascal is almost empty,
> I never invested time to develop it :(
> 
>   At the time I started it, GPC (the GNU pascal compiler)
> was still active, but development apparently
> stopped since quite some time.
> 
>   I am unable to install GPC, which means that I cannot test it.
> Would a testsuite that supports only Free Pascal be acceptable?

Do you actually mean, whether it's ok for a new
test (not test suite) to go in untested on GPC?  It certainly is.
Better test on FPC than nowhere.  :-)

AFAICS, the tests themselves don't really care which compiler
is in use other than for marking xfails; you just call gdb_compile_pascal,
and that works with either.  That's my impression from quickly
skimming testsuite/lib/pascal.exp.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves