RFA: modernization of ia64-tdep.c with new frame model for gdb-6.0 branch

[J. Johnston]

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>>        === gdb Summary ===
>>
>># of expected passes        5197
>># of unexpected failures    28
>># of unexpected successes    2
>># of expected failures        12
>># of known failures        1
>># of unresolved testcases    1
>># of unsupported tests        1
> 
> 
> That is light on the # of expected passes.
> 
> For comparison, I am getting 9000 expected passes with gdb HEAD and gdb
> gdb_6_0-branch on native i686-pc-linux-gnu.
> 
> Can you check your gdb.sum file and see if there are any
> ERROR lines or WARNING lines in it?  Unfortunately, the summary does
> not include counts for those.
> 
> Or it could be that ia64 doesn't run as many tests as i686.
> But 3800 missing tests is a LOT of tests.
> 
> Michael C
> 

That is just gdb.base above.  For the whole testsuite I am seeing ~80 failures (add
28 more without my gdb.asm testsuite fix):


-- Jeff J.