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Re: [RFA]: Fix gdb.base/callfwmall.exp for platforms without malloc
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFA]: Fix gdb.base/callfwmall.exp for platforms without malloc
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:55:03 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: Stephane Carrez <Stephane dot Carrez at worldnet dot fr>, <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michael Snyder wrote:
> No -- but perhaps we could approve a patch that would cause this
> test to be skipped (or xfailed) for targets in which we know it
> cannot pass.
Somewhere I am sitting on patches to change the behavior of this to XFAIL
if malloc does not exist. It does not rely on a particular config
variable. Instead, it queries gdb if malloc exists in the symbol table.
Would this be better? (Didn't we have this discussion a little while ago?
Deja vu?)
Keith