[rfa] New test sigbpt.{c,exp}

Andrew Cagney cagney@gnu.org
Tue Jul 6 15:10:00 GMT 2004


> mec> Can you make more of the test names more unique?
> ac> Oops, I thought I'd covered that.  Try the attached.
> 
> It works for me.
> All the test names are unique except for "rerun to main".
> Stil the same four FAILs but that's okay because they really are FAILs.
> 
> I approve this patch.
> 
> ac> Are there [get_kernel_info] and [get_software_singlestep] testsuite calls?
> 
> I don't know of any.
> 
> I'm a bit leery of "get_kernel_info", because we should be testing
> for features rather than version numbers (the whole autoconf philosophy).
> Although get_compiler_info has worked reasonably well for the job
> that it does.
> 
> I'm more inclined to dump a bunch of KFAIL's into the gdb_test_multiple
> arms for the bad results, along with comments about which kernel versions
> have been observed to have which behavior.  Then in 3-5 years it's not
> hard to sort out the obsolete crap.
> 
> If KFAIL's are too hard then just the comments for starters.

I both kfailed and and commented, committing the attached.

thanks,
Andrew

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