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Re: why do we set prms_id/bug_id in GDB testcases?


>>>>> "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


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