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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Remove some spurious test fails
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060609190957.GA5616@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4489936B.6020001@codesourcery.com>

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:27:39PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> This causes problems in the gdb testsuite because several tests presume one 
> can set a breakpoint or step to the final } of a function.  The tests which 
> do this are not actually testing for that functionality, but merely using 
> it.  For my target, this leads to a lot of spurious test failures.
> 
> Although it would be good to fix gcc, that's not practical right now, and I 
> thought it would be better to defensively code the gdb testsuite anyway.  

Anyone else have an opinion on this?  I think it's reasonable to avoid
problematic constructs and test for them explicitly, but I have a vague
memory that we didn't want to do that at some point in the past.

It's pretty vague though; if no one has a reason, I'll approve this.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-09 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-09 15:28 Nathan Sidwell
2006-06-09 19:10 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-06-10  0:09   ` Joel Brobecker
2006-06-13 13:31   ` Nathan Sidwell

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