Re: Very messy results from testsuite in GDB 8.1

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

On 05/02/18 11:18 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> That causes me to think that I can not yet use gdb 8.1.x on ppc64.
> 
> Is there someone who actually maintains that target? Without it,
> I don't think that things will improve in the future.

I would think there are a ton if interested people inside IBM given
that Red Hat releases a product for the IBM power based servers. The
differences between the POWER architecture and the PowerPC are not
as large as one would think. However, having said that, I will look
around and see if I can get an IBM POWER based system up and running
with Red Hat 7.4 and see what happens.


> Also, numbers alone can be quite misleading. I would try determining
> the list of tests that started failing, and the type of failure
> they indicate. Sometimes, the situation is as dire as the numbers
> indicate, and sometimes, we get huge numbers due to one error
> cascading into zillion ones.

I hope that is the case.

Dennis