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Re: RFC: Gcore.exp for incapable targets
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 12:31:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: Gcore.exp for incapable targets
- References: <200309291634.h8TGYoTw007478@duracef.shout.net>
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:34:50PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> drow> The only problem I see with this patch is the unsupported; should it
> drow> just be a fail instead? If gcore fails natively this will cause a
> drow> PASS->UNSUPPORTED instead of the PASS->FAIL that I'd expect.
>
> Either UNSUPPORTED or FAIL is fine with me.
>
> Personally I like UNSUPPORTED for this, because it's reasonable
> for the platform not to support core files. We can never quite
> tell inside the test if it's a platform limitation or a gdb bug
> so that would a be a case for making it FAIL.
>
> Michael C
Since only Michael C had comments and he was fine with the UNSUPPORTED,
I've checked this in.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer