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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Test suite docs
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uodp2hkls.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701131533.l0DFXOsk003977@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (message 	from Mark Kettenis on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:33:24 +0100 (CET))

> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:33:24 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: gdb@sourceware.org
> > 
> >     FAIL: gdb.base/corefile.exp: accessing mmapped data in core file (mapping address not found in core file)
> 
> I don't think I've ever seen this one myself.  The problem could be
> that your ulimit is set such that your system creates truncated core
> files.

"ulimit -c" is set to 200MB.

> This is what makes it so difficult to get the testsuite FAIL-free.
> The sheer number of Linux distributions out there that all appear as
> i386-unknown-linux-gnu to us, makes it very hard to selectively XFAIL
> tests.

Maybe we shouldn't test so many kernel-related issues.

> That said, even on OpenBSD I have been pretty lazy with putting in the
> proper setup_xfails.

One more reason to have the canonical results recorded somewhere.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-13 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-13 10:26 Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 13:28 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-01-13 13:54   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 14:00     ` Joel Brobecker
2007-02-24 15:51   ` Michael Snyder
2007-01-13 14:26 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-13 14:48   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 15:05     ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-13 15:16       ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 15:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-13 15:29     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-13 15:33     ` Mark Kettenis
2007-01-13 15:58       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-13 18:01       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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