From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10641 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2005 00:08:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10471 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Jul 2005 00:08:27 -0000 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com (HELO e34.co.us.ibm.com) (32.97.110.132) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:08:27 +0000 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j6S08PRX106364 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:08:25 -0400 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j6S08RE9124770 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:08:27 -0600 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6S08Ouk009777 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:08:24 -0600 Received: from dyn9047022123-009047022128.beaverton.ibm.com (dyn9047022123-009047022128.beaverton.ibm.com [9.47.22.128]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j6S08NCv009770; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:08:24 -0600 From: Paul Gilliam Reply-To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: tests for MI commands Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:08:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: Nick Roberts , Mark Kettenis , drow@false.org References: <17117.55351.716393.763492@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200507272103.j6RL3HYf022581@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <17128.2540.73355.406922@farnswood.snap.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <17128.2540.73355.406922@farnswood.snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200507271731.51299.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00215.txt.bz2 On Wednesday 27 July 2005 15:25, Nick Roberts wrote: > Let's remember that the testsuite is there to prevent regressions in GDB and > not as an end in itself. Presumably the focus should be on having the right > tests in the suite and not just on ensuring that everything passes. > > Nick > > No. Although regression testing is a major use for the testsuite is is not the only one. Some use the testsuite to compare gdb on different architectures. Some use it to validate new features. Some use it to learn tcl (no, just kidding 8-) -=# Paul #=-