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Re: [RFC] GDB testsuite patch.
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 11:29:12PM -0500, Manoj Iyer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is a patch to gdb/lib/gdb.exp, this patch handles the case when the
> GDB that is tested is stripped and has no debugging information.
>
> I have created this patch according to Michael's recomendations (see
> below).
Michael wrote:
> > Three of the four test scripts in gdb.gdb have their own 'setup_test',
> > and the fourth script has another copy of the same code. I would like
> > to see the common code factored into one place, lib/self-support.exp.
> >
> > Then setup_test calls gdb_load which calls gdb_file_cmd. You could get
> > into gdb_file_cmd and detect "(no debugging symbols found)" and add a
> > channel to return that information. Or, in setup_test, you could
> > do something right after the call to gdb_load to check for debugging
> > symbols.
> >
> > If there are no debugging symbols, then I think that the test script
> > should return one UNRESOLVED result and not continue testing.
> >
> > I'm not sure UNRESOLVED is the right result. Perhaps UNTESTED would
> > be better. But not UNSUPPORTED -- UNSUPPORTED means that a feature
> > is missing in the system under test.
That's not the same as what you've done. gdb_file_cmd should not
always fail for objects without debugging information, since there are
other tests that work OK without it. This only applies to the gdb.gdb/
tests.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz