Re: Patches for GNU/Linux PPC native now in CVS

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>    Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 03:25:41 -0700
>    From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@cygnus.com>
> 
>    On Feb 22, 11:13am, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>    [Detailed failure analysis snipped]
> 
>    > Anyway, I hope this helps,
> 
>    It did indeed.  Thanks!  (It showed me where not to focus my attention
>    first.)
> 
>    I'll respond to the sourceware list when I've had more time to study
>    your analysis, but in the meantime, I wanted to send you a note to let
>    you know that I appreciated your analysis...
> 
> Meanwhile, I learned something more about the
> 
> gdb.base/annota1.exp: backtrace @ signal handler
> 
> failure I reported.  There is nothing wrong with the test per se.
> It's just that on my i586-pc-linux-gnu system the regexp matching
> takes an awful lot of time.  Setting the timeout to 10 minutes made
> the test pass.  This is probably related to the fact that with glibc
> there is an extra frame.  Apparently the fix I suggested (but didn't
> understand), speeded up the regexp matching somewhat, but even in that
> case (with the default timeout) the test failed on my system last
> night.

Have a look at gdb.base/call-ar-st.exp and how it used
``gdb_expect_list''.  Patches that make the testsuite run 10 minutes
faster are always more than welcome :-)

	Andrew