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Re: gdb testsuite
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:53 -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 11:52 AM, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 09:56 -0800, Jim Blandy wrote:
> > > One unfortunate characteristic of the GDB test suite is that, even if
> > > GDB is horribly broken, many tests will still pass. You can't have
> > > much confidence that things are basically working with 356 failures.
> > > You should look through gdb.log and work through a bunch of them to
> > > get a feel for the state of things.
> >
> > It's good to be aware of that. Do you mind if I put this paragraph in
> >
> > http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/Testing_GDB ?
>
> Be my guest!
Thanks, it's there now.
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Thiago Jung Bauermann
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