From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27648 invoked by alias); 8 May 2002 03:06:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27641 invoked from network); 8 May 2002 03:06:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 May 2002 03:06:19 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 816CD3D2B; Tue, 7 May 2002 23:06:25 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CD89631.4010201@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 20:06:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Snyder Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Michael Snyder , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA/RFC] Tweak for a gdb.mi test. References: <200205080109.g4819B821604@reddwarf.sfbay.redhat.com> <20020508013041.GA29600@nevyn.them.org> <3CD887A4.6010605@cygnus.com> <3CD88738.2E9B1BC4@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00197.txt.bz2 >> From memory, a suggestion was to let people select the back-trace >> policy independant of the current architecture. > > > I thought we also had a policy of not inserting tests > that we knew would fail on some targets? Something about > this being a regression test... My understanding of the ``the regression test'' is that it stops people adding ``feature'' tests that demonstrate bugs in things that have never worked (or are not even implemented). It avoids, among other things, the problem of not knowing of a FAIL is a bug in GDB or in a testcase that never worked. I look at this test as something similar to call-ar-st. It has been demonstrate to work on one platform (I think the original was Arm/eCos but more recently GNU/Linux i386) and should work on other platforms. enjoy, Andrew