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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: lgustavo@codesourcery.com
Cc: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mi "-var-create" regression
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ugx3t3m.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <507743DF.1020907@codesourcery.com> (Luis Machado's message of	"Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:10:39 -0300")

>>>>> "Luis" == Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com> writes:

Luis> I thought about this for a while, and the best testing mechanism seems
Luis> to be just turning the "print object" option on by default and running
Luis> the entire testsuite, otherwise this test will be very specific to the
Luis> -var-create mechanism.

I think you'd see a lot of failures doing this.

FWIW I think 'set print object on' should be the default.
It is a FAQ for C++ programmers.
However, I think this would require a lot of annoying test suite
hacking.

Luis> If we're thinking about a regression coverage test, then i agree that
Luis> a test is appropriate in this case, so we can be sure it will never
Luis> happen again.

I think a regression test is both necessary and sufficient.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-10 20:05 Luis Gustavo
2012-10-11 21:53 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2012-10-11 22:10   ` Luis Machado
2012-10-17 17:29     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-10-12 19:57 ` Marc Khouzam
2012-10-14 17:18 ` Joel Brobecker
2012-10-15 12:21   ` Luis Machado
2012-10-18  1:13     ` Tom Tromey
2012-10-19 13:14       ` Luis Machado
2012-10-28 22:44       ` Luis Machado
2012-10-30 20:36         ` Tom Tromey
2012-11-14 19:21           ` Luis Machado
2012-11-15 16:44             ` Marc Khouzam
2012-11-15 17:48               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-11-15 18:47                 ` Tom Tromey
2012-11-15 20:54                   ` Marc Khouzam
2012-11-15 21:13                     ` Tom Tromey
2012-11-15 23:28                     ` Luis Machado
2012-11-16  0:50                       ` Marc Khouzam
2012-11-16  2:10                         ` Luis Machado
2012-11-29 20:11         ` Andreas Schwab
2012-11-29 21:07           ` Joel Brobecker
2012-11-30  2:13             ` Luis Machado
2012-12-07  2:48               ` Joel Brobecker
2012-12-07  2:51                 ` Luis Machado
2012-12-26 12:31                   ` Luis Machado
2013-01-03  3:46                     ` Joel Brobecker
2013-01-03 12:30                       ` Luis Machado
2013-01-03 12:38                         ` Joel Brobecker

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