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Re: Avoid timeouts in call-sc.exp
- From: Michael Chastain <mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com>
- To: pgilliam at us dot ibm dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:58:55 -0400
- Subject: Re: Avoid timeouts in call-sc.exp
- References: <200408181426.30208.pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
Paul Gilliam <pgilliam@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> The test "call-sc.exp" will attemt to "finish" from main if the prevous
> "return foo" failed. Here is what happens:
>
> 257 gdb_test_multiple "return foo" "${test}" {
>
> If this works, then we are in "main". If it doesn't work (say, due to a gdb
> bug) then we are left in the function "fun".
Oh yeah, that is bad news, an opening for desynchronization.
Before I go any further ... Paul, do you have a copyright assignment
with the FSF for gdb? Or maybe IBM has a blanket assignement?
I'm not familiar with IBM's arrangement with the FSF.
Thanks,
Michael Chastain