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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: why do we set prms_id/bug_id in GDB testcases?
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31ve2nipm.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100426170109.GE2732@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of 	"Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:01:09 -0400")

>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:

Joel> On rare occcasions, we'll even set an actual PR number, which I
Joel> assume is the Mozilla PR number. Does this actually do anything?

It may print something to the log.

Joel> Maybe it's used internally by dejagnu? (I couldn't find evidence of that
Joel> in the dejagnu manual)

There are some references in the dejagnu .exp files, but I didn't
examine them closely.

I don't think it is extremely valuable to set these variables.
Maybe they provide some small documentation value.  I've generally been
ignoring them in favor of a bug reference in the ChangeLog.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-26 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-26 17:01 Joel Brobecker
2010-04-26 19:00 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-04-26 19:09 ` Stan Shebs
2010-04-26 22:11   ` Joel Brobecker
2010-05-05 18:14     ` Joel Brobecker

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