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From: Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>,
	Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][gdb/testsuite] Make tui testing less verbose
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 01:32:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24207260-f0fb-187d-811f-620aa2d32581@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877derz6fv.fsf@tromey.com>

On 10/5/21 8:12 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
> 
> Tom> Brings down verbosity to something more reasonable:
> Tom> ...
> Tom> $ wc -l gdb.log
> Tom> 3221 gdb.log
> Tom> ...
> 
> Tom> Tested on x86_64-linux.
> 
> Tom> Any comments?
> 
> It seems fine to me.  I don't know what others do, but when I'm
> debugging TUI test cases I normally end up hacking in a bunch of
> dump_screen calls or whatever, as needed, then remove them at the end.

I do the same, and my ambition here was to make adding those calls
superfluous.

> So I'd probably be fine with even less logging.

Ack, but perhaps for maintainers less experienced with TUI test-cases
it'll be easier to parse the initial log and analyze problems (without
requiring them to know where to add those calls).

Thanks,
- Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2021-10-05 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-05 13:22 Tom de Vries
2021-10-05 18:12 ` Tom Tromey
2021-10-05 23:32   ` Tom de Vries [this message]

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