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Re: Disable gdb.threads-hp


  > A GDB convention is to add an ``OBSOLETE'' prefix to code like this - 
  > that way people using search scripts can ignore those lines.  In 
  > addition, GDB takes a pretty ruthless aproach to such code and deletes 
  > it after the next release.
  > 
  > Since this is tcl, I suspect the prefix should be:
  > 
  > 	# OBSOLETE
  > 
  > can I suggest also adding that.
FWIW, GDB has a much saner method for dealing with obsolete stuff than GCC;
hopefully GCC can learn something from how y'all are handling these kinds of
issues.

Presumably you just want an OBSOLETE marker at the top of those test files?

jeff


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