Re: [RFA/RFC] Tweak for a gdb.mi test.

Andrew Cagney
2002-05-08T03:06:20Z

>> From memory, a suggestion was to let people select the back-trace
>> policy independant of the current architecture.
>
>
> I thought we also had a policy of not inserting tests
> that we knew would fail on some targets? Something about
> this being a regression test...

My understanding of the ``the regression test'' is that it stops people
adding ``feature'' tests that demonstrate bugs in things that have never
worked (or are not even implemented). It avoids, among other things,
the problem of not knowing of a FAIL is a bug in GDB or in a testcase
that never worked.

I look at this test as something similar to call-ar-st. It has been
demonstrate to work on one platform (I think the original was Arm/eCos
but more recently GNU/Linux i386) and should work on other platforms.

enjoy,
Andrew