[Bug testsuite/29736] [gdb/testsuite] Review of remote host/target boards in gdb/testsuite/boards

["vries at gcc dot gnu.org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29736

--- Comment #1 from Tom de Vries <vries at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Tom de Vries from comment #0)
> V. build == target == localhost, host == remote
> 
> There are two host boards, local-remote-host-notty.exp and
> local-remote-host.exp that test using a remote host, accessing the remote
> host using ssh.  Again, note that the remote host also happens to be
> localhost, but as far as dejagnu is considered it is a distinct machine.
> 
> Here we don't force execs to be launched using gdbserver, which looks
> somewhat strange, because also here if gdb is launching an exec, it's
> running on the host, not the target.  We can get away with this because
> under the hood the remote host and the local target are the same machine,
> but AFAIU, we're not testing what we're supposed to test.
> 

I've come to the conclusion that these host boards only make sense in
combination with one of the target boards that force gdbserver.

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