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Re: [RFA/testsuite] Shorten the maint.exp symbols tests
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:29:24 -0500
- Subject: Re: [RFA/testsuite] Shorten the maint.exp symbols tests
- Organization: Red Hat Canada
- References: <20021022015852.GA22669@nevyn.them.org>
We haven't heard anything against it from the other C++ folks and, IMO,
we don't have any choice -- we just can't handle all symbols.
Please check it in and thank you for the fix.
Regards,
Fernando
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
Right now maint.exp dumps the contents of all symbols. There's a comment
from Jim that, if the C library has debug info, this can take a long time.
And we bump the timeout way up.
Well, on my test systems it takes longer than just a long time: it takes
about 45 minutes. And the generated files are close to a gigabyte. I think
that's a little bit overkill, don't you? :)
I modified the test to dump just the symbols for the files we're interested
in, and it works quite nicely. This cuts the test time back to a reasonable
amount. Is this change OK?
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