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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb.arch vs. gdb.base gcore test cases
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 15:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5183D0FE.6060105@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3ngdsq7.fsf@br87z6lw.de.ibm.com>

On 05/03/2013 03:48 PM, Andreas Arnez wrote:
> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> Did you check the original patch submission description in the
>> mailing list archives for a possible rationale?
> 
> Here's the associated patch submission:
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-04/msg00534.html
> 
> It doesn't seem to contain a rationale for the system-gcore test case.
> 
>> Given that "system" is a predefined register group, I think
>> "info reg system" works on all targets, though it might come
>> out empty if no register is actually in that group on a given
>> target.  That seems fine for this test.
> 
> Right, that's what I thought.  

Then why didn't you say so from the get go? ;-)

Thus a patch like this should make
> gcore-system.exp obsolete (untested):

Okay with a ChangeLog entry, and if it passes testing.

Thanks,
-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-03 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-03 11:15 Andreas Arnez
2013-05-03 11:28 ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-03 13:16   ` Andreas Arnez
2013-05-03 14:00     ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-03 14:48       ` Andreas Arnez
2013-05-03 15:24         ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2013-05-03 15:06           ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-03 15:53           ` Andreas Arnez

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