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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40056277.8050209@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040114151619.GA6374@nevyn.them.org>

> 
> There are two things that make me really nervous about this test.  One
> of them is systems with bad out-of-memory behavior, and the other is
> systems that don't dump sparse corefiles.  That's some serious pounding
> we'll be handing out...

Wicked.  Our testsuite could do with some serious real world pounding. 
Otherwize we'll never find, fix and then maintain the edge cases those 
tests can identify.

BTW, I wrote:

 > on some systems may not be so efficient at dumping core files making 
the test too slow

and those systems may find it better to disable the test :-/

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-14 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-14 14:56 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-01-14 15:07 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-14 15:16   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-14 15:38     ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-01-14 15:44       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-15 19:09     ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-15 19:13       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-01-20 22:02 ` Andrew Cagney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-21  8:18 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-01-21  4:42 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-01-21  5:23 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-14  3:11 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-01-14 14:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2004-01-14  2:40 Andrew Cagney

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