From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jimmy Guo To: Stan Shebs Cc: cagney@cygnus.com, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Testsuite Organization Proposal Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:02:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199906242141.OAA25771@andros.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-q2/msg00226.html > > gdb.base This is the base testsuite. The tests in it should > > apply to all configurations of GDB (but generic > > native-only tests may live here). The test programs > > should be in a subset of C that is valid K&R, ANSI/ISO, > > and C++ (ifdefs are allowed). > > I'd kind of like to see gdb.base contain no C++ tests. There are > targets out there that don't have a C++ compiler. > >Yes, gdb.base shouldn't contain any C++ tests. I think the main offender >right now is smoke.exp, and I'm wondering if it should be in there at all, >since its purpose in life was for HP to use in their internal process >before doing checkins, and I don't think anybody at HP uses it that way >anymore. How about moving the C++ part of smoke.exp and smoke.cc to gdb.c++? I'm about to provide a patch for the gdb.base suite as the part of the test suite merge effort between HP's tree and Cygnus tree, with assistance from Stan. This could be a time we split up smoke.exp. - Jimmy Guo, guo@cup.hp.com