Re: [PATCH 1/2] gdb.threads/attach-into-signal.exp: cleanup

Pedro Alves
2012-03-01T11:47:44Z

On 02/17/2012 09:00 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/17/2012 08:24 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> Pedro> - build different executable files for the non-threaded and threaded
>> Pedro> cases. This was my motivation. I wanted to test the non-threaded
>> Pedro> case manually, but the threaded variant always clobbered the
>> Pedro> non-threaded executable.
>>
>> I think this ought to be a general rule. We need exceptions to it for
>> some executable-changed cases, but I think in general different tests
>> should build different executables, because this makes it easier to do
>> additional checking by hand.
>
> Yeah, agreed. Perhaps we should write it down somewhere.
> I guess the wiki's test cookbook could be a good place.

Now mentioned over at <http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDBTestcaseCookbook>.

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Pedro Alves