Re: add bare_board variable

[Nathan Sidwell <nathan@codesourcery.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:09:48PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
>> This patch adds a bare_board target_info variable to skip a couple of tests that
>> presume some kind of OS is running.
> 
> I don't really like this.  They don't presume "some OS"; the presume
> OS's with specific capabilities.
> 
> auxv.exp will only pass on Linux and solaris2; a target test would be
> OK.  Want to do that?  Just istarget; they should pass even for remote
> targets.
Ok, I'll address that

>> The start.exp test doesn't work when a gdb stub is being used.
> 
> Do you think that start should work for remote targets, and be
> equivalent to "tbreak main; continue" instead of "tbreak main; run"?
> Or maybe it should issue an error instead of trying to run?

Although 'tbreak main; continue' would be nice, it'll only work after a load, 
otherwise the state won't be right.  Or, can gdb pull the entry point address 
out of the current file and do 'tbreak main; j *<addr>' ?

nathan

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