[RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp
Michael Elizabeth Chastain
chastain@cygnus.com
Fri Feb 16 08:41:00 GMT 2001
I was going to drop this, but ...
> This is irrelevant. The GDB test suite exists to verify that GDB
> behaves as documented. If a test checks for behavior which is not
> guaranteed, the test is in error, and should simply be removed.
callfwmalls.exp checks that "call foo(10)" works in a target program
that does not call malloc. That check is useful.
It also checks that "call foo("bar")" works in a target program that
does not call malloc. That check is useless.
Michael
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