From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26232 invoked by alias); 30 May 2013 09:19:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 26216 invoked by uid 89); 30 May 2013 09:19:05 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from gbenson.demon.co.uk (HELO blade.nx) (80.177.220.214) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Thu, 30 May 2013 09:19:03 +0000 Received: by blade.nx (Postfix, from userid 500) id 27B36263F7C; Thu, 30 May 2013 10:19:01 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:19:00 -0000 From: Gary Benson To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFA 6/7] Linker-debugger interface tests by Jan Message-ID: <20130530091901.GB5357@blade.nx> Mail-Followup-To: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20130516144847.GG2105@blade.nx> <51A651A0.9020503@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <51A651A0.9020503@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2013-05/txt/msg01048.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves wrote: > On 05/16/2013 03:48 PM, Gary Benson wrote: > > + Copyright 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Write "2011-2013". (I haven't checked all files, but there > are more instances.) I have updated these, and also the files in patch 7. > > +# With probes interface GDB no longer scans the inferior library list so its > > +# corruption cannot be tested. There is no way to disable the probes > > +# interface. > > I was wondering whether it wouldn't make sense to have such a way. > > It probably would be nice to run a couple dso related tests with the > probes interface force-disabled (in addition with the probes > enabled), at least for a couple years, while distros without probes > are still relevant, so we can easily catch regressions. That could > be done as a separate work, of course. Yeah, I was thinking about this last night. I'll put together a patch once the main series is in. Thanks, Gary -- http://gbenson.net/