From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10365 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2008 19:53:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 10357 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2008 19:53:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from igw2.br.ibm.com (HELO igw2.br.ibm.com) (32.104.18.25) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:52:47 +0000 Received: from mailhub1.br.ibm.com (mailhub1 [9.18.232.109]) by igw2.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AD7117F487 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:46:14 -0200 (BRDT) Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (d24av02.br.ibm.com [9.18.232.47]) by mailhub1.br.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m0UJqedb4001870 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:52:41 -0200 Received: from d24av02.br.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m0UJqeSw007360 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:52:40 -0200 Received: from [9.12.235.82] ([9.12.235.82]) by d24av02.br.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m0UJqbOl007245; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:52:38 -0200 Subject: Re: gdb testsuite From: Thiago Jung Bauermann To: Jim Blandy Cc: M R Swami Reddy , gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <8f2776cb0801300956q276d3cdahcc6fe3855983b8c@mail.gmail.com> References: <4799B660.2080905@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801251016y1a4cfbcfp35fab5ecacee8b1d@mail.gmail.com> <479D62DA.4080100@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801281050w4ae2d83fw53b793ba633302e1@mail.gmail.com> <479EC263.3060107@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801291221g106e39acw493a3b9e0a8e7798@mail.gmail.com> <47A073FD.9060103@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801300956q276d3cdahcc6fe3855983b8c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:53:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1201722754.11950.266.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-01/txt/msg00347.txt.bz2 On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:56 -0800, Jim Blandy wrote: > One unfortunate characteristic of the GDB test suite is that, even if > GDB is horribly broken, many tests will still pass. You can't have > much confidence that things are basically working with 356 failures. > You should look through gdb.log and work through a bunch of them to > get a feel for the state of things. It's good to be aware of that. Do you mind if I put this paragraph in http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Testing_GDB ? -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann Software Engineer IBM Linux Technology Center