From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-return-27714-listarch-gdb=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 17886 invoked by alias); 13 Feb 2007 03:33:19 -0000
Received: (qmail 17877 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Feb 2007 03:33:18 -0000
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (HELO nf-out-0910.google.com) (64.233.182.186)     by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:33:13 +0000
Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n28so104075nfc         for <gdb@sourceware.org>; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:33:11 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.82.120.14 with SMTP id s14mr11582153buc.1171337591380;         Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:33:11 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.82.161.17 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 19:33:11 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <cea22a0c0702121933o1365beb7v5bfad7c0d1bb7db8@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 15:29:00 -0000
From: "Aman Wardak" <aman.wardak@gmail.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: many tests restart gdbserver
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2

When the testsuite is run in a cross environment, many of the tests
start up the gdbserver on the target twice and only use the second
instance.

 lib/gdb.exp:gdb_start() starts the first instance
 lib/gdb.exp:runto_main() starts the second

Is this actually done for a purpose (maybe its needed to do this
sometimes) ? Or can we optimize this?  Has anyone looked at it?

Thanks,
Aman