Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2001-02-16T08:41:00Z

I was going to drop this, but ...

> This is irrelevant. The GDB test suite exists to verify that GDB
> behaves as documented. If a test checks for behavior which is not
> guaranteed, the test is in error, and should simply be removed.

callfwmalls.exp checks that "call foo(10)" works in a target program
that does not call malloc. That check is useful.

It also checks that "call foo("bar")" works in a target program that
does not call malloc. That check is useless.

Michael