Hi,
On Monday, 26 September 2022 03:11:43 CEST Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> The tests that it fixed probably need some attention in the form of
> moving some "preclean" steps to GCC's ${tool}-dg-test.
I'll add giving them a look to my TODO.
> Keeping the current interface while fixing the {PASS,FAIL}+UNSUPPORTED
> issue is also possible: we can build up a list of results from
> scanning the messages, but not actually report them to the framework
> until after checking the return value of ${tool}-dg-prune for an
> "abandon test" flag. Note that ${tool}-dg-test could produce this
> flag in lieu of actual output and ${tool}-dg-prune simply pass it
> along. (I suspect that the current Tcl list facilities that would
> enable this were not yet available when dg.exp was written more than
> 20 years ago.)
>
> The main reason I am reluctant to simply accept the "abandon test"
> flags directly from ${tool}-dg-test is that that would completely
> break backwards compatibility: testsuites depending on this would
> absolutely need DejaGnu 1.6.4, and I think we may be able to get most
> of the way there (at least getting an UNSUPPORTED result reliably
> into the summary) with existing code.
Right, I didn't think of that. Indeed, aggregating the results to
dispatch them after pruning (but before excess error) should cover all
of these cases.
> Excellent! It is now tracked as PR58065. I expect to have a
> regression test and a preliminary patch in a few days.
That's great. Thank you very much!
Have a good day,
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Arsen Arsenović
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