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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	       Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix for PR tdep/15653: Implement SystemTap SDT probe support for AArch64
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 17:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqjt222h.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1385336092-19621-1-git-send-email-sergiodj@redhat.com> (Sergio	Durigan Junior's message of "Sun, 24 Nov 2013 21:34:52 -0200")

>>>>> "Sergio" == Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> writes:

Sergio> Now, about the tests...  I have been using ARM Foundation's simulator
Sergio> on x86_64 (Fedora 18).  This is an incredibly slow simulator, to the
Sergio> point that I gave up compiling GDB directly on it.  Instead, I am
Sergio> cross-compiling it on my machine and testing only the binary there.
Sergio> Therefore, I also gave up running the testsuite, and only ran
Sergio> stap-related tests.  As far as I'm concerned, everything succeeded and
Sergio> I didn't break anything.  The code is pretty much self contained that
Sergio> it doesn't affect other areas of GDB, but of course this patch could
Sergio> use more testing, and I won't complain if you have the means and the
Sergio> will to do this!

FWIW in this specific case I think this testing approach is ok.
The patch pretty clearly just touches the stap probe code.
Could you say, though, exactly which tests you ran?

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-11-27 17:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-24 23:48 Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-11-25 12:18 ` Marcus Shawcroft
2013-11-25 23:55   ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-11-26 10:13     ` Marcus Shawcroft
2013-11-27 17:52       ` Tom Tromey
2013-12-04 23:35         ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2013-11-27 17:32 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-12-04 23:33   ` Sergio Durigan Junior

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