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Re: [PING 2][PATCH v3] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Martin Galvan <martin dot galvan at tallertechnologies dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, tom at tromey dot com, triegel at redhat dot com, palves at redhat dot com, vapier at gentoo dot org, daniel dot gutson at tallertechnologies dot com
- Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 12:08:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PING 2][PATCH v3] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types
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On 02/05/2016 11:39 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2016, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> When you say emulator I expect you mean something like a qemu userspace
>> emualtor that runs only the cross-platform binary without starting a full
>> system simulator?
>
> Yes. I think Roland has used something like that for NaCl testing, for
> example. I'd expect the vast bulk of tests to work in that context,
> though maybe not threading tests or whole-system tests such as you
> mention.
I guess we could explicitly describe this notion and then allow the
testsuite to mark whole-system tests as UNSUPPORTED in configurations
that can't run them.
Cheers,
Carlos.