Re: [PATCH/RFC] Get Alpha target to GDB_MULTI_ARCH_PARTIAL

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> 
> Folks...
> 
> Attached is a patch that gets the Alpha target to GDB_MULTI_ARCH_PARTIAL.
> This is the low-hanging fruit.
> 
> I'm a little troubled by the apparent state of the Alpha target.  While
> my patch results in fewer testsuite failures, the number of failures still
> seems quite high.
> 
> With the alpha-netbsd target I posted here a while ago:
> 
> Before:
>                 === gdb Summary ===
> 
> # of expected passes            6340
> # of unexpected failures        1187
> # of unexpected successes       2
> # of expected failures          145
> # of unresolved testcases       138
> # of unsupported tests          3
> 
> After:
>                 === gdb Summary ===
> 
> # of expected passes            6595
> # of unexpected failures        945
> # of unexpected successes       4
> # of expected failures          143
> # of unresolved testcases       118
> # of untested testcases         6
> # of unsupported tests          3
> 
> I would really like to know what the test results are on Digital Unix
> or Linux (I can't easily install either of those on any of my Alpha
> systems, unfortunately).

I recently ran alpha-linux:
		=== gdb Summary ===

# of expected passes		8412
# of unexpected failures	165
# of unexpected successes	11
# of expected failures		168
# of unresolved testcases	368
# of untested testcases		7
/castro/street/msnyder/build/gdb/testsuite/../../gdb/gdb version  2002-04-09-cvs -nx