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Re: gdb.base/fileio.exp necessary?


On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 05:32:13PM +0200, Markus Deuling wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at gdb.base/fileio.exp testcase. What gdb feature does it test? 
> It's more a kind of test for open/read/write/ etc. syscalls isn't it? Does it 
> make sense to have it in a testsuite for gdb? Maybe I'm overlooking s.th. ?

It tests GDB's emulation of file I/O activities for some remote
targets.  See "File-I/O remote protocol extension" in the manual.

If you're noticing that it fails on gdbserver, add "set_board_info
gdb,nofileio 1" to your board file; the feature doesn't apply for all
remote targets.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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