From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7502 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2008 23:54:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 7494 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2008 23:54:27 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (HELO py-out-1112.google.com) (64.233.166.178) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:53:53 +0000 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v53so512976pyh.33 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:53:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.102.1 with SMTP id e1mr1532313pym.32.1201737231313; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:53:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.35.36.15 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:53:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0801301553t61fc9ffaoe1be82d4f22cc4b9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:54:00 -0000 From: "Jim Blandy" To: "Thiago Jung Bauermann" Subject: Re: gdb testsuite Cc: "M R Swami Reddy" , gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <1201722754.11950.266.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4799B660.2080905@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801251016y1a4cfbcfp35fab5ecacee8b1d@mail.gmail.com> <479D62DA.4080100@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801281050w4ae2d83fw53b793ba633302e1@mail.gmail.com> <479EC263.3060107@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801291221g106e39acw493a3b9e0a8e7798@mail.gmail.com> <47A073FD.9060103@nsc.com> <8f2776cb0801300956q276d3cdahcc6fe3855983b8c@mail.gmail.com> <1201722754.11950.266.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4505256032f298bc X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2008-01/txt/msg00351.txt.bz2 Be my guest! On Jan 30, 2008 11:52 AM, Thiago Jung Bauermann 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 > >