Re: On the use of abort() in the testsuite

2010-04-16 Thread IainS
On 14 Apr 2010, at 21:42, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: IainS writes: So... I wonder what does abort() offer to the testsuite? that, for example, _exit(-(__LINE__)) ; doesn't? The testsuite can be run on embedded systems over serial ports, where is sometimes limited communication available.

Re: On the use of abort() in the testsuite

2010-04-14 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
IainS writes: > So... I wonder what does abort() offer to the testsuite? > > that, for example, _exit(-(__LINE__)) ; > > doesn't? The testsuite can be run on embedded systems over serial ports, where is sometimes limited communication available. Each test has to give one of two responses: su

On the use of abort() in the testsuite

2010-04-14 Thread IainS
I feel in my bones that this will probably have been discussed before ... but. On my platform of choice when abort() is called it tries to a) generate a coredump b) formats and saves a cute crashdump to allow non-expert users to forward failure info to application writers or the system vendo