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Re: [RFA/RFC] Tweak for a gdb.mi test.
Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> >> From memory, a suggestion was to let people select the back-trace
> >> policy independant of the current architecture.
> >
> >
> > I thought we also had a policy of not inserting tests
> > that we knew would fail on some targets? Something about
> > this being a regression test...
>
> My understanding of the ``the regression test'' is that it stops people
> adding ``feature'' tests that demonstrate bugs in things that have never
> worked (or are not even implemented). It avoids, among other things,
> the problem of not knowing of a FAIL is a bug in GDB or in a testcase
> that never worked.
>
> I look at this test as something similar to call-ar-st. It has been
> demonstrate to work on one platform (I think the original was Arm/eCos
> but more recently GNU/Linux i386) and should work on other platforms.
OK, I yield. Patch withdrawn.