[RFA/RFC] Tweak for a gdb.mi test.

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Tue May 7 20:06:00 GMT 2002


>>  From memory, a suggestion was to let people select the back-trace
>> policy independant of the current architecture.
> 
> 
> I thought we also had a policy of not inserting tests
> that we knew would fail on some targets?  Something about
> this being a regression test...

My understanding of the ``the regression test'' is that it stops people 
adding ``feature'' tests that demonstrate bugs in things that have never 
worked (or are not even implemented).  It avoids, among other things, 
the problem of not knowing of a FAIL is a bug in GDB or in a testcase 
that never worked.

I look at this test as something similar to call-ar-st.  It has been 
demonstrate to work on one platform (I think the original was Arm/eCos 
but more recently GNU/Linux i386) and should work on other platforms.

enjoy,
Andrew



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