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Stabs or Dwarf Was: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Stabs or Dwarf Was: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp
- From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 16:12:43 -0400
- CC: Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com, vinschen at redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat , Inc. - Toronto
- References: <20010925192434.M29024@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3BB0C224.AB324D56@cygnus.com> <3BB0CB81.8385E123@redhat.com> <3BB0F122.3E45B3ED@cygnus.com>
>From a discussion in gdb-patches
Michael Snyder wrote:
>
> (...) we need some kind of test that applies
> the xfails for stabs and not for dwarf.
>
There are so many instances where this would be useful that I would
like to suggest a "gdb_debug_format" procedure to be added to gdb.exp
that would determine that.
We could use a binutils utility on the test file (which we know) and
parse the output. Does that seem reasonable? Any other suggestions?
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Fernando Nasser
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