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Re: many tests restart gdbserver


On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 07:33:11PM -0800, Aman Wardak wrote:
> When the testsuite is run in a cross environment, many of the tests
> start up the gdbserver on the target twice and only use the second
> instance.
> 
> lib/gdb.exp:gdb_start() starts the first instance
> lib/gdb.exp:runto_main() starts the second
> 
> Is this actually done for a purpose (maybe its needed to do this
> sometimes) ? Or can we optimize this?  Has anyone looked at it?

I never figured out a way to get the testsuite to work without this.
If you can, be my guest!  I plan to try again sometime, but it won't
be any time soon.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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