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Re: [RFA/ppc-aix] fix thread support breakage (was: "Re: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc64-aix ptrace64 when defined.")
- From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Raunaq 12 <raunaq12 at in dot ibm dot com>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, Mark Kettenis <mark dot kettenis at xs4all dot nl>, Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich dot Weigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:14:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA/ppc-aix] fix thread support breakage (was: "Re: [PATCH 4/5] powerpc64-aix ptrace64 when defined.")
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>> Is there a testcase that can be added to the GDB testsuite to catch
>> this type of regression?
>
> All testcases involving thread support should reveal this type of
> failure. I cannot remember exactly how this patch was tested, but
> ISTR that it couldn't be tested through the official testsuite,
> for some reasons that were deemed reasonable...
Uli and I both asked Raunaq if the patch had been tested with the
testsuite. However, the testsuite may not have been run with the full
matrix: GDB32 -> Testsuite32, GDB32 ->Testsuite64, GDB64 ->
Testsuite32, GDB64 -> Testsuite64.
- David