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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
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In-reply-to: <4DD514A6.7040606@codesourcery.com> (message from Yao Qi on Thu,	19 May 2011 21:01:26 +0800)
Subject: Re: [_Complex test 1/4]  support_complex_tests in gdb.exp and pass _Complex args to func
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> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 21:01:26 +0800
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> 
> On 05/19/2011 04:14 PM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > The other thing is that the testsuite should not be "conservative".
> > We should run as many tests as possible on as many platforms as
> > possible.  Tests that are known to fail should be KFAILed (if there is
> > a known bug/issue with GDB itself) or XFAILed (if there is an issue
> > with the platform).  Only if running the tests causes serious problems
> > (crashing the OS, causing excessive timeouts) we should consider
> > skipping them.
> 
> No.  I don't want to break running non-complex-type tests in
> funcargs.exp or varargs.exp on platforms that don't support _Complex
> after this patch.

Ok, I see what you're trying to avoid now.  In that case you should
first build the test binary without defining TEST_COMPLEX, run the
existing tests, rebuild the binary with TEST_COMPLEX and then run the
new _Complex tests.  Or simply seperate the _Complex tests into files
of their own.