Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files

Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-01-21T08:18:05Z

Another thought that might be helpful, or might not:

We could add some environment variables so that the person running
the script could enable specific scripts. Like:

GDB_TEST_SUITE_BIG_CORE
GDB_TEST_SUITE_CPLUS_EXPERIMENTAL
...
GDB_TEST_SUITE_EVERYTHING

The default for all of these would be "off". After some experience
with them, we could take out the environment variable tests.

I was thinking about this for some of the refurbished C++ tests like
member-ptr.exp. This script has lots of interesting non-PASS results
with both g++ and hpacc. Daniel and David would benefit from it while
they are developing, but other people don't want to see all the
non-PASSes because they aren't regressions.

As Andrew likes to say ... thoughts?

Michael C