Re: [PATCH 1/2] GDB test suite: Add helper for locating core files

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at imgtec dot com>]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, Andreas Arnez wrote:

> > This seems incorrect to me.  "isnative" only checks
> > if the build and target _triplets_ are the same.  So
> > foo-linux-gnu gdb x foo-linux-gnu gdbserver on separate
> > machine still returns isnative==true.
> 
> Exactly, that's why I originally wrote is_remote instead.  And I also
> wondered why the core dump tests check isnative.  Does anyone run the
> testsuite on a native remote setup?

 Well, I had cases where I did that, and offhand I can find two reasons:

1. You want to verify `gdbserver' itself rather than GDB, in which case 
   you may even run it locally (i.e. where the remote target is really 
   `localhost').

2. You want to test a feature (e.g. an extra register set) only your 
   target system has and it is too slow or unequipped to run DejaGNU 
   itself.

  Maciej