Kito> Remote protocols need a port which means it's harder to parallel Kito> testing in a single machine, but I guess it could add some Kito> mechanism to randomly pick a port to prevent that.
The gdb test suite already handles this; but also maybe it could be changed to use the pipe feature of "target remote". Kito> So currently I prefer using simple qemu wrapper or gdb sim to run gcc Kito> testsuite :P Don't worry, there's no danger of this change happening soon. Tom