From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19647 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2011 21:29:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 19638 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2011 21:29:31 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:29:27 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A8132BAC4D; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:29:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2iqnha9JLk86; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:29:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D6942BAC43; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:29:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DC531459AD; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:29:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:29:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Michael Snyder Cc: Nathan Froyd , "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Question re: testsuite, "isnative", "is_remote" etc. Message-ID: <20110113212924.GA5306@adacore.com> References: <4D2E35C5.60206@vmware.com> <20110113184025.GO6247@codesourcery.com> <4D2F4CA9.1010105@vmware.com> <20110113193211.GO2518@adacore.com> <4D2F5881.4020703@vmware.com> <20110113205311.GP2518@adacore.com> <4D2F67A5.20000@vmware.com> <20110113212712.GQ2518@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110113212712.GQ2518@adacore.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2011-01/txt/msg00053.txt.bz2 > But we can try to establish a standard, and see where that leads us. > If we don't find problems after a while, we know the decision was > good, and we can then consider making a massive change (or we can > just leave everything as they are). PS: I do very much want to document every decision we make, however, with as much information about the rationale behind the decision. That way, if we consider changing things again, we won't have to guess why we made such and such decision. -- Joel