From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 95427 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2018 18:15:47 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 94171 invoked by uid 89); 6 Feb 2018 18:15:46 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_NUMSUBJECT autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-spam-relays-external:ESMTPA X-HELO: jax4mhob20.registeredsite.com Received: from jax4mhob20.registeredsite.com (HELO jax4mhob20.registeredsite.com) (64.69.218.108) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:15:44 +0000 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com ([10.30.77.35]) by jax4mhob20.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w16IFeEW094823 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 13:15:40 -0500 Received: (qmail 22521 invoked by uid 0); 6 Feb 2018 18:15:40 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 99.253.103.29 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO sedna.genunix.com) (dclarke@blastwave.org@99.253.103.29) by 0 with ESMTPA; 6 Feb 2018 18:15:39 -0000 Subject: Re: Very messy results from testsuite in GDB 8.1 To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <705e5846-7792-4fc0-4275-e2216802ae43@blastwave.org> <20180206041814.iezsbgusp4klhkrf@adacore.com> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:15:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180206041814.iezsbgusp4klhkrf@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00046.txt.bz2 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