[PATCH] use "verbose" for notification of not running a test

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Sat Nov 29 23:29:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:24:54PM -0700, Fred Fish wrote:
> Other places in the testsuite where tests are not run based on the
> target or it's capabilities use "verbose" to notify the user.  The
> suppression mechanisms are generally reserved for short circuiting
> future tests when a failure of some kind is observed when attempting a
> test.
> 
> 
> 2003-11-29  Fred Fish  <fnf@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* gdb.asm/asm-source.exp: Use "verbose" when not running
> 	assembly tests or not supporting multilib.

Hmm... I'd rather not.  In general, I'm all in favor of destroying
calls to gdb_suppress_entire_file.  However, most other tests are
skipped because of some serious lack in GDB or the available OS
services, not because the test needs a quick port to that architecture. 
The asm-source.exp suppression was left messy to encourage people to
write the appropriate wrappers; it's really not hard to do.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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