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Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files

testcase /house/chastain/gdb/s1/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp completed in 183 seconds
testcase src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/bigcore.exp completed in 4 seconds


Figures prove: Linux dumps core faster! :)

Part of the difference is that I'm using an NFS file system.

Nope. I'm using NFS on a weasly little 450mhz P2.

But a lot of it may be sparse file support in Linux.

Yep. While sparse file support is a standard part of UFS, it appears that only the Linux Kernel thought to exploit it when writing the core file!

I can't comment on the program itself right now, maybe later.

Hmm, can you think of an efficient way of soaking up most of the stack ...? :-) On GNU/Linux, alloca() proved to be useless :-(

Andrew


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