This is the mail archive of the gdb-patches@sourceware.org mailing list for the GDB project.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gdb.threads/attach-into-signal.exp: cleanup


On 02/17/2012 09:00 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/17/2012 08:24 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> Pedro> - build different executable files for the non-threaded and threaded
>> Pedro>   cases.  This was my motivation.  I wanted to test the non-threaded
>> Pedro>   case manually, but the threaded variant always clobbered the
>> Pedro>   non-threaded executable.
>>
>> I think this ought to be a general rule.  We need exceptions to it for
>> some executable-changed cases, but I think in general different tests
>> should build different executables, because this makes it easier to do
>> additional checking by hand.
> 
> Yeah, agreed.  Perhaps we should write it down somewhere.
> I guess the wiki's test cookbook could be a good place.

Now mentioned over at <http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDBTestcaseCookbook>.

-- 
Pedro Alves


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]