testsuite: Of all the timeouts provided always select the largest
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@mips.com
Tue Feb 26 16:17:00 GMT 2008
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jim Blandy wrote:
> I've often thought that what would be coolest would be for gdb_expect
> to accept a factor to be applied to the ambient timeout, rather than a
> new absolute number of seconds. After all, the only thing a specific
> use of gdb_expect knows is that the response it's waiting for will
> take longer (or shorter?) than usual to arrive; it doesn't know
> anything about the absolute performance of the system under test.
All the callers would have to be updated and unfortunately the dependency
may not necessarily be linear. For example for a fast target accessed
through a slow port the factor for transferring data through, such as
downloading a program image, would have to be higher than for a slow
target accessed through a fast port. Contrariwise the factor applied to
actions involving execution on the respective systems. In general I do
agree it is a good idea, but that is a lot of work that best be well
thought before commencing.
Maciej
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