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From: Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: gdb.arch vs. gdb.base gcore test cases
Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 13:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqrgfble.fsf@br87z6lw.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51839F41.2050101@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 03	May 2013 12:28:01 +0100")

Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

> On 05/03/2013 12:15 PM, Andreas Arnez wrote:
>> The following two test cases are mostly identical, and their associated
>> C source files are exactly identical:
>> 
>>     gdb.arch/system-gcore.exp
>>     gdb.base/gcore.exp
>> 
>> Is there any specific reason for the two copies?  Just curious...
>
> Well, what does git blame, and the initial submission of the
> corresponding patches say?  The answer probably lies in what makes them
> "mostly identical" rather than "exactly identical" being arch
> specific.  If the differences are really small, then we could merge
> them into gcore.exp, using istarget to guard the arch specific bits.

The common test case was introduced some time ago:

    2002-01-08  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@redhat.com>
    
    	* gdb.base/gcore.exp: New test for generate-core-file command.
    	* gdb.base/gcore.c: Testcase for above.
    	* gdb.threads/gcore-thread.exp: New test for gcore (threaded).

The x86-specific one is newer; it was introduced with this change:

    2010-04-17  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
    
    	PR corefiles/11511
    	* gdb.arch/system-gcore.exp: New.
    	* gdb.arch/gcore.c: Likewise.

The only functional difference seems to be that system-gcore.exp adds a
new comparison (before/after) for the output from "info reg system".


  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-03 13:16 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 [this message]
2013-05-03 14:00     ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-03 14:48       ` Andreas Arnez
2013-05-03 15:24         ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-03 15:06           ` Pedro Alves
2013-05-03 15:53           ` Andreas Arnez

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