RFC: Gcore.exp for incapable targets

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Oct 13 16:31:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:34:50PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> drow> The only problem I see with this patch is the unsupported; should it
> drow> just be a fail instead?  If gcore fails natively this will cause a
> drow> PASS->UNSUPPORTED instead of the PASS->FAIL that I'd expect.
> 
> Either UNSUPPORTED or FAIL is fine with me.
> 
> Personally I like UNSUPPORTED for this, because it's reasonable
> for the platform not to support core files.  We can never quite
> tell inside the test if it's a platform limitation or a gdb bug
> so that would a be a case for making it FAIL.
> 
> Michael C

Since only Michael C had comments and he was fine with the UNSUPPORTED,
I've checked this in.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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