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Re: RFC: Gcore.exp for incapable targets
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: drow at mvista dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:34:50 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: Gcore.exp for incapable targets
drow> The only problem I see with this patch is the unsupported; should it
drow> just be a fail instead? If gcore fails natively this will cause a
drow> PASS->UNSUPPORTED instead of the PASS->FAIL that I'd expect.
Either UNSUPPORTED or FAIL is fine with me.
Personally I like UNSUPPORTED for this, because it's reasonable
for the platform not to support core files. We can never quite
tell inside the test if it's a platform limitation or a gdb bug
so that would a be a case for making it FAIL.
Michael C