many tests restart gdbserver
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Tue Feb 13 15:43:00 GMT 2007
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:33:11PM -0800, Aman Wardak wrote:
> When the testsuite is run in a cross environment, many of the tests
> start up the gdbserver on the target twice and only use the second
> instance.
>
> lib/gdb.exp:gdb_start() starts the first instance
> lib/gdb.exp:runto_main() starts the second
>
> Is this actually done for a purpose (maybe its needed to do this
> sometimes) ? Or can we optimize this? Has anyone looked at it?
I never figured out a way to get the testsuite to work without this.
If you can, be my guest! I plan to try again sometime, but it won't
be any time soon.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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