Re: [rfa/testsuite] test script for pr gdb/1056, divide by zero in gdb

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

> Joel asks:
> 
>> What is our policy regarding the insertion of URLs pointing to GDB PRs,
>> or URLs in general? I would prefer that we actually copy the relevant
>> information from the URL rather than inserting the URL.
> 
> 
> I'm not aware of an actual policy about this.

I'm not either.

While ".../gdb/bugs/<PR>" will out last any switch to mozilla (re-number 
over my dead body :-), I don't think people will appreciate having 
"redhat" embedded in the file.

I'd just stick to quoting the GDB pr number and any relevant text.

> I like the URL because the PR database is the central repository
> for information about bugs in gdb.  It's easy for anyone to add new
> information to the PR database, but it requires an FSF copyright
> assignment and maintainer approval to add information to a test case.
> 
> I think that this test case has enough information even if
> the PR database disappears.  Specifically:
> 
>   # When SIGFPE happens, the operating system may restart the
>   # offending instruction after the signal handler returns,
>   # rather than proceeding to the next instruction.  This happens
>   # on i686-pc-linux-gnu with a linux kernel.  If gdb has a naive
>   # signal handler that just returns, then it will restart the
>   # broken instruction and gdb gets an endless stream of SIGFPE's
>   # and makes no progress.
> 
> If you want even more text in the test case, I'm open to patches.

Anyway, yes ok.

Andrew