From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fernando Nasser To: Michael Snyder Cc: Fernando Nasser , gdb@sources.redhat.com, vinschen@redhat.com Subject: Stabs or Dwarf Was: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 13:16:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BB236BB.F50E045E@cygnus.com> References: <20010925192434.M29024@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BB0C224.AB324D56@cygnus.com> <3BB0CB81.8385E123@redhat.com> <3BB0F122.3E45B3ED@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00210.html >From a discussion in gdb-patches Michael Snyder wrote: > > (...) we need some kind of test that applies > the xfails for stabs and not for dwarf. > There are so many instances where this would be useful that I would like to suggest a "gdb_debug_format" procedure to be added to gdb.exp that would determine that. We could use a binutils utility on the test file (which we know) and parse the output. Does that seem reasonable? Any other suggestions? -- Fernando Nasser Red Hat - Toronto E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300 Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9