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Re: Remove some spurious test fails


On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:27:39PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> This causes problems in the gdb testsuite because several tests presume one 
> can set a breakpoint or step to the final } of a function.  The tests which 
> do this are not actually testing for that functionality, but merely using 
> it.  For my target, this leads to a lot of spurious test failures.
> 
> Although it would be good to fix gcc, that's not practical right now, and I 
> thought it would be better to defensively code the gdb testsuite anyway.  

Anyone else have an opinion on this?  I think it's reasonable to avoid
problematic constructs and test for them explicitly, but I have a vague
memory that we didn't want to do that at some point in the past.

It's pretty vague though; if no one has a reason, I'll approve this.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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