How big should bigcore.core be?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:27:50PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >If the latter is true, I really think we should disable this test by
> >default and only enable it on systems where we know we won't generate
> >ridiculously large files running the risk of crashing the machine.
> >For my work on GDB, I regularly use machines that are not mine, and
> >I'd really hate it if I crashed those.
> 
> It's catch-22.  As seen with the assembler tests, unless these are 
> enabled, everyone ignores them :-(

But Mark has a point in that the unimplemented assembler tests are a
lot less problematic for the host system than this test.  How about a
list of systems to run on, a list of systems not safe to run on, and
issuing an UNTESTED for everything else?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer