From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17863 invoked by alias); 8 May 2002 22:52:27 -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 17856 invoked from network); 8 May 2002 22:52:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 8 May 2002 22:52:25 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D5E3D7D; Wed, 8 May 2002 18:52:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CD9AC2D.7000900@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 15:52:00 -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> <3CD89631.4010201@cygnus.com> <3CD98C8A.384344AB@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 > Andrew Cagney wrote: > >> > >> >> 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. > > > OK, I yield. Patch withdrawn. The sooner we get KFAIL the better! Andrew