From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
To: Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <akamath996@gmail.com>,
ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com, simon.marchi@polymtl.ca,
tom@tromey.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com,
sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com,
Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <aditya.kamath1@ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Skip bigcore.exp on AIX
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:54:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wlrj815n.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261015134700.81681-2-akamath996@gmail.com>
Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <akamath996@gmail.com> writes:
> From: Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <aditya.kamath1@ibm.com>
>
> AIX does not support sparse core files, so bigcore.exp, which
> allocates up to 16GB and then dumps core, is too slow and large there
> and fails. Add AIX to the list of targets without sparse corefile
In prose 'core file' is the right choice. I only notice because you got
this write in the first sentence :)
But otherwise:
Approved-By: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Thanks,
Andrew
> support, so that the test is reported as untested.
> ---
> gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp
> index 41f61996bbe..d66706e858e 100644
> --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ require isnative
> # I/O bandwidth.
>
> if { [istarget "*-*-*bsd*"]
> + || [istarget "*-*-aix*"]
> || [istarget "*-*-solaris*"]
> || [istarget "*-*-darwin*"]
> || [istarget "*-*-cygwin*"] } {
> --
> 2.51.2
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2026-10-15 13:47 Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath
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