[PING 2][PATCH v3] Add pretty printers for the NPTL lock types
Carlos O'Donell
carlos@redhat.com
Thu Feb 11 16:41:00 GMT 2016
On 02/10/2016 08:01 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Martin Galvan wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 2:48 PM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>> 1. Work out where you want to run GDB when testing this feature - on the
>>> system on which glibc is built (possibly a cross GDB), or on the system on
>>> which glibc runs.
>>
>> What's the point on cross-testing the printers anyway? They're
>> platform-independent.
>
> The point is that native and cross builds should produce the same results
> and run the same tests.
Or you could run the test on both and compare results looking for
cross-debugging problems that you might see only in more advanced
remote debug configurations.
A native build could elide the target test.
Cheers,
Carlos.
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