bigcore.exp on 64-bit systems

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Sat Jan 13 17:57:00 GMT 2007


> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 10:20:59 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> > On this machine, bigcore.exp is a pest: it runs for a very long time,
> > produces a humongous core file (so large that I expect the sysadmins
> > to send me angry emails), and eventually fails (or so it seems).
> > Here's what gdb.sum says about it:
> 
> The core file is probably not that large.  Could you check with 'du'?

You are right, it's only 3.9MB.  But the test still fails with
timeout.

> If it is a sufficient nuisance, perhaps we should add a way for you
> to disable the test.

I can always rename the .exp file, like Joel suggested, but it seems
unclean to remove test files to disable them.



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