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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] [gdb/testsuite] Kill left-over process in gdb.base/add-symbol-file-attach.exp
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 11:05:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eczn5icx.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <91ab3691-d4a7-4909-9b2c-6d563bb1dad8@suse.de> (Tom de Vries's message of "Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:57:35 +0100")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:

>> Should this really yield unsupported, though, and not a fail?

Tom> AFAIU, the only thing that FAIL should be used for, is if gdb is
Tom> behaving incorrectly.  In this case, gdb is not involved, this is just
Tom> expact spawning a process for gdb to attach to.

Yeah, that makes sense.  But I think it also makes sense to
differentiate between "cannot run because you don't have a C++ compiler"
and "spawn failed somehow but should not have".

The former is an expected thing -- you didn't want to test C++ or Ada or
whatever.

The latter is some kind of error.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2025-02-24 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-17 16:36 [PATCH 0/3] [gdb/testsuite] Clean up left-over processes Tom de Vries
2025-02-17 16:36 ` [PATCH 1/3] [gdb/testsuite] Don't start gdb in gdb.base/gstack.exp Tom de Vries
2025-02-17 17:20   ` Keith Seitz
2025-02-18  7:59     ` Tom de Vries
2025-02-17 16:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] [gdb/testsuite] Kill left-over process in gdb.base/add-symbol-file-attach.exp Tom de Vries
2025-02-24 17:26   ` Tom Tromey
2025-02-24 17:57     ` Tom de Vries
2025-02-24 18:05       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2025-02-24 18:43         ` Tom de Vries
2025-02-17 16:36 ` [PATCH 3/3] [gdb/testsuite] Exit left-over gdb in gdb.mi/mi-break.exp Tom de Vries
2025-02-24 17:28   ` Tom Tromey

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