From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 85565 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2017 13:58:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 85497 invoked by uid 89); 17 Oct 2017 13:58:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*Ad:U*kevinb, friends X-HELO: 20pmail.ess.barracuda.com Received: from 20pmail.ess.barracuda.com (HELO 20pmail.ess.barracuda.com) (64.235.154.233) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:58:23 +0000 Received: from MIPSMAIL01.mipstec.com (mailrelay.mips.com [12.201.5.28]) by mx1411.ess.rzc.cudaops.com (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:58:07 +0000 Received: from [10.20.78.215] (10.20.78.215) by mips01.mipstec.com (10.20.43.31) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.361.1; Tue, 17 Oct 2017 06:57:44 -0700 Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:58:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Andreas Arnez CC: Pedro Alves , Kevin Buettner , Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] GDB test suite: Add helper for locating core files In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1505760152-28775-1-git-send-email-arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1505760152-28775-2-git-send-email-arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20171007094545.1bba5c51@pinnacle.lan> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-BESS-ID: 1508248687-452059-5279-412119-1 X-BESS-VER: 2017.12.1-r1709122024 X-BESS-Apparent-Source-IP: 12.201.5.28 X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Score: 0.00 X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.186055 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------- 0.00 BSF_BESS_OUTBOUND META: BESS Outbound X-BESS-Outbound-Spam-Status: SCORE=0.00 using account:ESS59374 scores of KILL_LEVEL=7.0 tests=BSF_BESS_OUTBOUND X-BESS-BRTS-Status:1 X-SW-Source: 2017-10/txt/msg00521.txt.bz2 On Fri, 13 Oct 2017, Andreas Arnez wrote: > >> Exactly, that's why I originally wrote is_remote instead. And I also > >> wondered why the core dump tests check isnative. Does anyone run the > >> testsuite on a native remote setup? > > > > Well, I had cases where I did that, and offhand I can find two reasons: > > > > 1. You want to verify `gdbserver' itself rather than GDB, in which case > > you may even run it locally (i.e. where the remote target is really > > `localhost'). > > This is the native-gdbserver setup, right? In that case the core dump > tests should work... Yes and indeed. > > 2. You want to test a feature (e.g. an extra register set) only your > > target system has and it is too slow or unequipped to run DejaGNU > > itself. > > ...and in this case they shouldn't. Do you remember whether you saw > FAILs from corefile.exp and friends? Nope, sorry. It was a while ago and I only looked for regressions with whatever I meant to verify and not preexisting failures anyway. Maciej