Re: PATCH: Update internal unit tests for changes from 22 years ago

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Rob Savoye wrote:
> On 5/21/19 8:38 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>   
> > While developing tests for default_target_compile, I ran into several
> > strange problems that I eventually tracked down to an empty board_info
> > array.  Apparently, when the target configuration was moved into the
> > board_info array 22 years ago, the DejaGnu internal unit tests had been
> > forgotten, having only been written a year earlier.  :-)  Since the
> > remote and target tests have been stubs for as long as I can see, this
> > breakage sat unnoticed until now.
> >     
>
>   That's pretty funny, as the m68k support has been depreciated from the
> GNU toolchain due to lack of hardware.

Why?  The simulators still work, or were the Cygnus simulators never 
actually released?  (I have never actually seen them.)  Use m68k QEMU?  
Or is m68k basically a dead arch now that is no longer used?

>  I still have the boards in those
> target settings someplace, but they haven't been powered up in 20 years.
> :-) Those m6k targets were some of the earliest in DejaGnu, and those
> were added to test the "debug monitor" remote protocol in GDB.
>   

Well, then it looks like I will be using those boards as test data for 
testing default_target_compile.  :-)

-- Jacob