Re: Problems with dejagnu and c++ tests...

Andrew Cagney
2004-02-04T22:49:10Z

> ac> Something based on CPP would be more robust, and avoid assumptions such
> ac> as the target has output and can correctly compile / execute code.
> ac> Consider what happens when trying to bring up a new GDB+GCC+....
>
> We're running the test suite. If gdb_compile does not work,
> or the resulting executables cannot be run, then the test script
> cannot run its tests anyways.

Which would mean that a GCC code-gen bug in malloc, or printf would
block all ability to run the testsuite :-( We need to avoid making the
testsuite fragile.

Andrew