Re: zillions of testsuite failures

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>]

David Carlton writes:
 > Is anybody seeing lots of testsuite failures all of a sudden?  I'm
 > getting huge numbers; many, possibly all of them (e.g. every MI test
 > fails), seem to have to do with how GDB is invoked.  It seems like, at
 > some point, invocations start getting
 > 
 >   <directory>/testsuite/gdb.base/args 1 '' '' 3
 > 

Argh! that's my fault!!! Sorry.
Let me fix it.
I think I set a global and didn't reset it....

Elena


 > tacked onto them.  E.g. the last line of gdb.sum is:
 > 
 > /extra/gdb/mirror/src/gdb/testsuite/../../gdb/gdb version  2003-01-15-cvs --args /extra/gdb/mirror/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/args 1 '' '' 3
 > 
 > Looking at this a bit further, it seems like this 'global GDBFLAGS' that
 > args.exp sets is persisting for the rest of the entire test run.  So I
 > think there's something wrong with args.exp.
 > 
 > On a separate, I get the following results from gdb.base/advance.exp
 > 
 > Running ./gdb.base/advance.exp ...
 > PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance line number
 > PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: malformed advance
 > PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance func
 > FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance function not called by current frame
 > FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: find line number containing "break here"
 > PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: set breakpoint at call to func3
 > FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: continue to call to func3 in main
 > FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance function called as param
 > FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance with no argument
 > 
 > This happens before the args fiasco, so I think the failures are
 > legit.  Are they known?  I'll append the relevant part of my gdb.log
 > after my signature.
 > 
 > David Carlton
 > carlton@math.stanford.edu
 > 
 > (gdb) run 
 > Starting program: /extra/gdb/mirror/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/advance 
 > 
 > Breakpoint 1, main () at gdb.base/advance.c:37
 > 37	  c = 5;
 > (gdb) list ./gdb.base/advance.c:1,1
 > No source file named ./gdb.base/advance.c.
 > (gdb) search advance this location
 > 38	  b = 3;    /* advance this location */
 > (gdb) advance 38
 > main () at gdb.base/advance.c:38
 > 38	  b = 3;    /* advance this location */
 > (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance line number
 > list ./gdb.base/advance.c:1,1
 > No source file named ./gdb.base/advance.c.
 > (gdb) search advance malformed
 > 43	  return 0; /* advance malformed */
 > (gdb) advance 43 then stop
 > Junk at end of arguments.
 > (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: malformed advance
 > advance func
 > func () at gdb.base/advance.c:18
 > 18	  x = x + 5;
 > (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance func
 > advance func3
 > main () at gdb.base/advance.c:41
 > 41	  func3 (); /* break here */
 > (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance function not called by current frame
 > list ./gdb.base/advance.c:1,1
 > No source file named ./gdb.base/advance.c.
 > (gdb) search break here
 > Expression not found
 > (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: find line number containing "break here"
 > break -1
 > Breakpoint 2 at 0x80484aa: file gdb.base/advance.c, line 40.
 > (gdb) PASS: gdb.base/advance.exp: set breakpoint at call to func3
 > continue
 > Continuing.
 > 
 > Program exited normally.
 > (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: continue to call to func3 in main
 > advance foo
 > The program is not running.
 > (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance function called as param
 > advance
 > The program is not running.
 > (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/advance.exp: advance with no argument