Re: gdb testsuite

Jim Blandy
2008-01-30T23:54:28Z

Be my guest!

On Jan 30, 2008 11:52 AM, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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
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