From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22069 invoked by alias); 17 Feb 2004 16:35:44 -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 22062 invoked from network); 17 Feb 2004 16:35:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Feb 2004 16:35:43 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD8C2B92; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:35:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <403242DD.2090207@gnu.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:35:00 -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: Andrew Cagney , Roland McGrath Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] auxv support References: <200401302351.i0UNp4hk018577@magilla.sf.frob.com> <401AF1E1.7040908@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00473.txt.bz2 >>> Would you be able to also knock up an "auxv.exp" test case? > >> >> Sure! That is, I'd be happy to try. Is there an especially good existing >> test case to take as the canonical template for a test such as this? >> >> To be complete, a test should try a live process, try a real core file, and >> also try making a core file with gcore and then seeing that it matches the >> real process it was made from. Can you point me to an example of a test >> that elicits core dumps and examines them? >> > I'd start with corefile.exp, and then delete. Alternatively: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-01/msg00610.html > where I've parked my bigcore.exp test - it compares the output from the core file with that of the running program. Roland, did you have any luck with this? bigcore.exp is now in the main repository so it's easy to find. Andrew