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Re: why do we set prms_id/bug_id in GDB testcases?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:59:17 -0600
- Subject: Re: why do we set prms_id/bug_id in GDB testcases?
- References: <20100426170109.GE2732@adacore.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
Joel> On rare occcasions, we'll even set an actual PR number, which I
Joel> assume is the Mozilla PR number. Does this actually do anything?
It may print something to the log.
Joel> Maybe it's used internally by dejagnu? (I couldn't find evidence of that
Joel> in the dejagnu manual)
There are some references in the dejagnu .exp files, but I didn't
examine them closely.
I don't think it is extremely valuable to set these variables.
Maybe they provide some small documentation value. I've generally been
ignoring them in favor of a bug reference in the ChangeLog.
Tom