Re: [RFA/testsuite] Remove all remaining gdb_suppress_entire_file

Joel Brobecker
2006-08-09T16:51:15Z

> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:10:11PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Hmm, I guess what I really want is an UNTESTED if the failure was to
> > be expected (for example the ADA tests if there is no ADA compiler on
> > the system) and an error if something went wrong that shouldn't have
> > gone wrong (an ICE from GCC on one of the testsuite code snippets).
> > However, there probably isn't always a clear distinction between the
> > two. For example, do we expect C++ snippets to compile on all
> > systems? I suppose Joel's patch is progress; we can always tweak
> > things later if we feel the UNTESTEDs are inappropriate.
>
> Sounds good to me. We do expect most of the tests to compile on most
> systems, except for those with "strange" dependencies - meaning
> everything but C and C++ and anything with threads. But I don't see
> a good way to capture this information that isn't more trouble than
> it's really worth.

Does it mean I should go ahead and commit this patch?

Thanks,
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Joel