Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp

[David Taylor <taylor at cygnus dot com>]

    From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain@cygnus.com>
    Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:30:03 -0800

    Hi Fernando,

    > And if he/she is a really good maintainer he/she will reject your patch
    > as it would be adding a restriction to inferior function calls that we
    > do not currently have.

    This is bothering me.

    I've seen some real "this is so embarrassing I should wear a brown
    paper bag over my head" bugs:

      (gdb) set input-radix 2
      Input radix now set to decimal 4294967295, hex ffffffff, octal 37777777777.

Umm, that bug only existed in the internal repository, not in the
sources.redhat.com one, only on big endian hosts, and it was due to
the failure to commit a header file change to the internal repository
when the rest of a bug fix was committed.

    Sorry if I make the author of that bug blush.   My point is that this
    happens in software, and that it's the job of the test suite to detect
    when it happens.

Absolutely!

    Michael