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Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp
- To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <chastain at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Assuming malloc exists in callfwmall.exp
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:48:17 -0500
- CC: ac131313 at cygnus dot com, fnasser at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, keiths at cygnus dot com
- Organization: Red Hat , Inc. - Toronto
- References: <200102152030.MAA27123@bosch.cygnus.com>
Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
I don't see a relation to what we were discussing.
And I think this thread is too long for such a small thing.
I have better things to do.
If this test file stays it will stay in its abbreviated form.
--
Fernando Nasser
Red Hat - Toronto E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com
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