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Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp
- To: chastain at cygnus dot com, jimb at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 08:41:23 -0800
- Cc: ac131313 at cygnus dot com, fnasser at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, keiths at cygnus dot com
I was going to drop this, but ...
> This is irrelevant. The GDB test suite exists to verify that GDB
> behaves as documented. If a test checks for behavior which is not
> guaranteed, the test is in error, and should simply be removed.
callfwmalls.exp checks that "call foo(10)" works in a target program
that does not call malloc. That check is useful.
It also checks that "call foo("bar")" works in a target program that
does not call malloc. That check is useless.
Michael