Re: [rfa/testsuite] Get the inferior to dump core

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

> This patch is approved.

Tks, I'll commit shortly.

> I had wondered about that technique of bigcore.exp, it surprised me a
> bit when I saw that it was making two runs of the inferior.
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> > > Is this ok?  I just wonder if it should be generalized and moved to 
> > > gdb.exp, I guess that should be a separate pass.
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> I don't know exactly what "it" is referring to, but a separate pass
> for moving "it" to gdb.exp sounds good to me.

The sequence needed to first generate and then locate/rename a corefile 
from an inferior running under GDB (instead of running the program twice).

> I like what corefile.exp tries to do.  It creates a unique subdirectory
> and runs the target program in the subdirectory so that the core file
> is easy to find.  It suffers from build != host problems though.

but it (and I'm sure there are others) suffers from corefile != inferior 
problems and I'm pretty sure all duplicated corefile's logic.

Andrew