From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
To: chastain@cygnus.com, jimb@cygnus.com
Cc: ac131313@cygnus.com, fnasser@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, keiths@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:41:00 -0000
Message-id: <200102161641.IAA23848@bosch.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00288.html

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