[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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