Hi Ian, Thanks for your answer. yes i am working with original poster Here is the version : expect version 5.44.1 Host gcc "gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC)" Target "gcc version 4.4.1" dejagnu-1.4.4 tk8.5.6 tcl8.5.6 thanks On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > naveen yadav <yad.naveen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> I have check the testcode. >> >> >> 1 /* This is from PR c/25892. See Wpointer-sign.c for more details. */ >> 2 >> 3 /* { dg-options "-Wall" } */ >> 4 >> 5 void foo(unsigned long* ulp); /* { dg-message "note: expected >> '\[^\n'\]*' but argument is of type '\[^\n'\]*'" "note: expected" { >> target *-*-* } 5 } */ >> 6 >> 7 >> 8 void bar(long* lp) { >> 9 foo(lp); /* { dg-warning "differ in signedness" } */ >> 10 } >> >> >> so why this fail > > No idea. Are you working with the original poster? If you are, I > suppose the first thing I would check would be the version of DejaGNU. > > Ian > > >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> paladin tripathi <paladin.tripathi@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> I am trying to test gcc testsuite on target in some test cases i am >>>> getting the following logs >>>> >>>> Executing on host: arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c -Wall -S -o Wpointer-sign-Wall.s >>>> (timeout = 300) >>>> pid is 15130 -15130 >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c: In function 'bar': >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c:9: warning: pointer targets in passing >>>> argument 1 of 'foo' differ in signedness >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c:5: note: expected 'long unsigned int *' >>>> but argument is of type 'long int *' >>>> output is ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c: In function 'bar': >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c:9: warning: pointer targets in passing >>>> argument 1 of 'foo' differ in signedness >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c:5: note: expected 'long unsigned int *' >>>> but argument is of type 'long int *' >>>> >>>> output is: >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c: In function 'bar': >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c:9: warning: pointer targets in passing >>>> argument 1 of 'foo' differ in signedness >>>> ./gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c:5: note: expected 'long unsigned int *' >>>> but argument is of type 'long int *' >>>> >>>> PASS: gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c (test for warnings, line 9) >>>> FAIL: gcc.dg/Wpointer-sign-Wall.c (test for excess errors) >>>> >>>> >>>> Could some one explain me what is this "test for excess errors" >>>> is this run time error or compile time error >>> >>> DejaGNU, which is what the gcc testsuite uses, is verifying that there >>> are no unexpected errors. Failing the "test for excess errors" means >>> that the test generated an unexpected error. >>> >>> In this case the problem appears to be that the test case does not >>> expect the message at line 5. When I look at the test case in current >>> gcc sources, I see that the message on line 5 is expected. So I would >>> guess that you are using a newer gcc with an older testsuite, or some >>> such mismatch. >>> >>> Ian >>> >