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Re: RFA: properly skip interrupts.exp
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, jimb at redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 19:39:39 -0500
- Subject: Re: RFA: properly skip interrupts.exp
- References: <200203020545.g225jaq20874@duracef.shout.net>
> I have doubts about this. It seems plausible to me that "nointerrupts"
> is a property of the host, not the target. gdb.base/interrupt.exp
> seems very host oriented to me.
I think it is a target vector property. It is just that few targets
(beyond native) think to implement the functionality described by
interrupt.exp.
Things get confusing when you find that certain target interfaces don't
work on certain hosts.
> But dejagnu 1.4.2 has just two boards that set this:
>
> baseboards.exp/dos.exp
> baseboards.exp/m68hc11-sim.exp
>
> I don't really know whether host or target is correct, and I don't
> know what will happen with a switch. Sigh.
>
> I'm inclined to rip out "nointerrupts", rip out the years of
> "setup_xfail" crud, and let the FAILs fall where they may.
> But not with the 5.2 branch and 5.2 release imminent.
Not sure about nointerrupts, pulling the setup_xfail cruft sounds positive.
enjoy,
Andrew