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Re: testsuite: Of all the timeouts provided always select the largest
- From: "Jim Blandy" <jimb at red-bean dot com>
- To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at mips dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at linux-mips dot org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:55:03 -0800
- Subject: Re: testsuite: Of all the timeouts provided always select the largest
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0802251311540.28703@perivale.mips.com>
I've often thought that what would be coolest would be for gdb_expect
to accept a factor to be applied to the ambient timeout, rather than a
new absolute number of seconds. After all, the only thing a specific
use of gdb_expect knows is that the response it's waiting for will
take longer (or shorter?) than usual to arrive; it doesn't know
anything about the absolute performance of the system under test.