On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM Jonathan Wakely <[email protected]> wrote:
> When the last format argument to a Tcl proc is named 'args' it has
> special meaning and is a list that accepts any number of arguments[1].
> This means when "" is passed to the proc and then we expand "$args" we
> get an empty list formatted as "{}". My r16-537-g3e2b83faeb6b14 change
> broke all uses of dg-require-namedlocale with empty locale names, "".
>
> By changing the name of the formal argument to 'locale' we avoid the
> special behaviour for 'args' and now it only accepts a single argument
> (as was always intended). When expanded as "$locale" we get "" as I
> expected.
>
> [1] https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.0/TclCmd/proc.html
>
> libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:
>
> PR libstdc++/65909
> * testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp (check_v3_target_namedlocale):
> Change name of formal argument to locale.
> ---
>
> Tested x86_64-linux.
>
LGTM. Thanks for the link.
>
> I also plan to audit the other procs in libstdc++.exp to see if they
> should not use 'args', but that can be done later. The priority for now
> is to fix what I broke recently.
>
> libstdc++-v3/testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp
> b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp
> index da1f4245e4b8..9f2dd8a17248 100644
> --- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp
> +++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp
> @@ -1019,8 +1019,8 @@ proc check_v3_target_time { } {
> }]
> }
>
> -proc check_v3_target_namedlocale { args } {
> - set key "et_namedlocale $args"
> +proc check_v3_target_namedlocale { locale } {
> + set key "et_namedlocale $locale"
> return [check_v3_target_prop_cached $key {
> global tool
> # Set up, compile, and execute a C++ test program that tries to use
> @@ -1048,7 +1048,7 @@ proc check_v3_target_namedlocale { args } {
> puts $f "}"
> puts $f "int main ()"
> puts $f "{"
> - puts $f " const char *namedloc = transform_locale(\"$args\");"
> + puts $f " const char *namedloc = transform_locale(\"$locale\");"
> puts $f " try"
> puts $f " {"
> puts $f " locale((const char*)namedloc);"
> @@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ proc check_v3_target_namedlocale { args } {
> set result [${tool}_load "./$exe" "" ""]
> set status [lindex $result 0]
>
> - verbose "check_v3_target_namedlocale <$args>: status is <$status>"
> 2
> + verbose "check_v3_target_namedlocale <$locale>: status is
> <$status>" 2
>
> if { $status == "pass" } {
> return 1
> --
> 2.49.0
>
>