[ob] Eliminate another gdb_suppress_entire_file
Joel Brobecker
brobecker@adacore.com
Fri Jun 23 03:35:00 GMT 2006
> > Should we try to remove all the instances of gdb_suppress_entire_file?
> > I don't remember if there are some cases where it's legit to use them.
>
> I'd be in favor.
>
> It's not a bad idea, really. But the way the GDB testsuite is layed
> out, I think it's impractical - and I know that in practice it doesn't
> work, because it will always provoke an ERROR: Gdb did not load after
> 10 seconds (or something similar to that).
Oh ho, I just did a quick grep, and found 352 occurences.
That's a lot of work... I wonder if we could do that in a mechanical
way. It seems as though replacing this by an error followed by a return
would be OK, but not ideal.
Hmmm. Perhaps a first step to stop any potential spread would be to
rename it deprecated_gdb_suppress_entire_file.
--
Joel
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