From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fernando Nasser To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: ac131313@cygnus.com, fnasser@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, keiths@cygnus.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:48:00 -0000 Message-id: <3A8C4091.D7D3A6BA@cygnus.com> References: <200102152030.MAA27123@bosch.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00266.html Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > > Hi Fernando, > > > And if he/she is a really good maintainer he/she will reject your patch > > as it would be adding a restriction to inferior function calls that we > > do not currently have. > > This is bothering me. > > I've seen some real "this is so embarrassing I should wear a brown > paper bag over my head" bugs: > > (gdb) set input-radix 2 > Input radix now set to decimal 4294967295, hex ffffffff, octal 37777777777. > > Sorry if I make the author of that bug blush. My point is that this > happens in software, and that it's the job of the test suite to detect > when it happens. > I don't see a relation to what we were discussing. And I think this thread is too long for such a small thing. I have better things to do. If this test file stays it will stay in its abbreviated form. -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat - Toronto E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9