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Re: Testsuite Organization Proposal
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Testsuite Organization Proposal
- From: Jimmy Guo <guo@cup.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:02:04 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: cagney@cygnus.com, gdb@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > gdb.base This is the base testsuite. The tests in it should
> > apply to all configurations of GDB (but generic
> > native-only tests may live here). The test programs
> > should be in a subset of C that is valid K&R, ANSI/ISO,
> > and C++ (ifdefs are allowed).
>
> I'd kind of like to see gdb.base contain no C++ tests. There are
> targets out there that don't have a C++ compiler.
>
>Yes, gdb.base shouldn't contain any C++ tests. I think the main offender
>right now is smoke.exp, and I'm wondering if it should be in there at all,
>since its purpose in life was for HP to use in their internal process
>before doing checkins, and I don't think anybody at HP uses it that way
>anymore.
How about moving the C++ part of smoke.exp and smoke.cc to gdb.c++?
I'm about to provide a patch for the gdb.base suite as the part of the
test suite merge effort between HP's tree and Cygnus tree, with
assistance from Stan. This could be a time we split up smoke.exp.
- Jimmy Guo, guo@cup.hp.com