From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23066 invoked by alias); 18 Aug 2004 21:58:48 -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 23055 invoked from network); 18 Aug 2004 21:58:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hall.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.60) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 18 Aug 2004 21:58:48 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by hall.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BxYSF-0004ne-00; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:58:47 -0400 Received: from mindspring.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E1B54B102; Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:58:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 21:58:00 -0000 From: Michael Chastain To: pgilliam@us.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Avoid timeouts in call-sc.exp Message-ID: <4123D11F.nail61H11P80J@mindspring.com> References: <200408181426.30208.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <200408181426.30208.pgilliam@us.ibm.com> User-Agent: nail 10.8 6/28/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-08/txt/msg00568.txt.bz2 Paul Gilliam wrote: > The test "call-sc.exp" will attemt to "finish" from main if the prevous > "return foo" failed. Here is what happens: > > 257 gdb_test_multiple "return foo" "${test}" { > > If this works, then we are in "main". If it doesn't work (say, due to a gdb > bug) then we are left in the function "fun". Oh yeah, that is bad news, an opening for desynchronization. Before I go any further ... Paul, do you have a copyright assignment with the FSF for gdb? Or maybe IBM has a blanket assignement? I'm not familiar with IBM's arrangement with the FSF. Thanks, Michael Chastain