From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29387 invoked by alias); 14 Jan 2004 15:38:33 -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 29374 invoked from network); 14 Jan 2004 15:38:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Jan 2004 15:38:33 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2072B92; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 10:38:31 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <40056277.8050209@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:38:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files References: <20040114145701.9034A4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <40055B49.70003@redhat.com> <20040114151619.GA6374@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00376.txt.bz2 > > 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