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Re: [PATCH 0/7] Process record and reverse debugging support on aarch64-linux
- From: Omair Javaid <omair dot javaid at linaro dot org>
- To: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: "gdb-patches at sourceware dot org" <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 00:42:13 +0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Process record and reverse debugging support on aarch64-linux
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On 30 August 2014 08:41, Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> Omair Javaid <omair.javaid@linaro.org> writes:
>
>> These patches have been tested on aarch64 foundation model as well as hardware
>> board in native and remote configurations.
>>
>> gdb.reverse Testsuite Results
>>
>> (AARCH64-Native Configuration)
>> gdb.reverse testsuite: 2273 Pass 51 failures
>>
>> (AARCH64-Remote Configuration)
>> gdb.reverse testsuite: 2273 Pass 51 failures
>
> The result looks good, but gdb.reverse/*.exp can't cover some
> instructions, such as advance simd instructions. IWBN to add some arch
> specific tests in gdb.reverse/, so that we can be more confident. x86
> and amd64 have already had some arch specific tests under gdb.reverse.
I agree that currently we cannot test full instructions coverage but
there are so many permutations for each instruction that adding these
tests dont full fill a cost vs benefit for now. I have marked this
task in my future todo list.
>
> --
> Yao (éå)