Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

> BTW, Michael, any thoughts on how to fail this on systems that can't 
> > efficiently dump a 3g core file?  Skip the test I guess, but with which 
> > mechanism?  untested?
>
>
> Unconditional UNTESTED is simple and good.  "Hey, what happened with
> the 3 gigabyte core dump test?"  "Oh, it says UNTESTED".  It's pretty
> clear to me what that means.
>
> As for *how* to do it, that is harder.
>
> The real issue is that the criterion is not really "what is the target
> triple", but "what are the resources of the specific test bed".  Like,
> Daniel J says that it would be awkward to enable it in the Debian
> version.  And it's useless for me on HP Test Drive, because I run into a
> ulimit at 1 gigabyte.  That's a property of HP-TD policy, not of the
> hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 target.  I dunno how to encode that kind of
> criterion in the test suite.

Daniel, did you get to try this test?

So far the problem I've hit is with kernel's that can't write generate 
core files - they end up really trying to write write / consume gb worth 
of disk.  Fortunatly those OSs families should be easy to identify and skip.

Andrew