From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9448 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2010 19:00:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 9362 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Apr 2010 19:00:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:59:57 +0000 Received: from int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.21]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3QIxKvi015684 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:59:20 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3QIxJU9031666; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:59:19 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o3QIxICK012569; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:59:18 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2066337820A; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:59:18 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: why do we set prms_id/bug_id in GDB testcases? References: <20100426170109.GE2732@adacore.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:00:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20100426170109.GE2732@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:01:09 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00890.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker 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