2013-10-21 Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>

	* gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp: Care about endianness when casting
	scalars to vectors.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp
index 67a44c1878..457892c4e9 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ if { ![runto main] } {
     return -1
 }
 
+# Get endianess for the scalar->vector casts
+gdb_test_multiple "show endian" "show endian" {
+    -re ".* (big|little) endian.*$gdb_prompt $" { 
+	set endian $expect_out(1,string) 
+	pass "endianness: $endian"
+    }
+}
+
 # Test printing of character vector types
 gdb_test "print c4" "\\\$$decimal = \\{1, 2, 3, 4\\}"
 gdb_test "print c4\[2\]" "\\\$$decimal = 3"
@@ -83,9 +91,14 @@ gdb_test "print -f4a" "\\\$$decimal = \\{-2, -4, -8, -16\\}"
 # When casting to vector the input type must have the same length as
 # the total length of the vector.
 gdb_test "print (char4) 0x01010101" "\\\$$decimal = \\{1, 1, 1, 1\\}"
-gdb_test "print (char4) ia" "\\\$$decimal = \\{2, 0, 0, 0\\}"
 gdb_test "print (int2) lla" "\\\$$decimal = \\{1, 1\\}"
 
+if { ![string compare $endian big] } then {
+    gdb_test "print (char4) ia" "\\\$$decimal = \\{0, 0, 0, 2\\}"
+} else {
+    gdb_test "print (char4) ia" "\\\$$decimal = \\{2, 0, 0, 0\\}"
+}
+
 gdb_test "print (int2) 1" "can only cast scalar to vector of same size"
 gdb_test "print (longlong2) 2" "can only cast scalar to vector of same size"
 gdb_test "print (float2) 3" "can only cast scalar to vector of same size"