Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files

Andrew Cagney
2004-01-14T15:38:33Z

>
> There are two things that make me really nervous about this test. One
> of them is systems with bad out-of-memory behavior, and the other is
> systems that don't dump sparse corefiles. That's some serious pounding
> we'll be handing out...

Wicked. Our testsuite could do with some serious real world pounding.
Otherwize we'll never find, fix and then maintain the edge cases those
tests can identify.

BTW, I wrote:

> on some systems may not be so efficient at dumping core files making
the test too slow

and those systems may find it better to disable the test :-/

Andrew