From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain To: ac131313@cygnus.com, fnasser@redhat.com Cc: ezannoni@cygnus.com, fnasser@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, keiths@cygnus.com, kevinb@cygnus.com, msnyder@cygnus.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 07:09:00 -0000 Message-id: <200102151509.HAA16995@bosch.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00250.html Hi Fernando, > Should we test GDB's ability to find malloc() from the shared libraries > per se? The little test code added by Keith and revamped by Michael > could be used to do that. Ah, I had that problem on hpux 10.20. The section tables were messed up and gdb was unable to call malloc(). It caused hundreds of FAILs. So I think there is no need for a separate test. Michael