Re: How to abort a test?

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> --status does no really impact how a timeout is handled.  What happens
> when a timeout occurs in gdb_test is defined by us.  Right now, it
> produces a test "fail":
> 
> testsuite/lib/gdb.exp:
>   937         timeout {
>   938             if ![string match "" $message] then {
>   939                 fail "$message (timeout)"
>   940             }
>   941             set result 1
>   942         }
> 
> So you see, for example:
> 
>   FAIL: gdb.base/break.exp: some test (timeout)
> 
> and the test case carries on.  A gdb_test timeout is no different than
> a regular fail.  If you replace the "fail" at line 939 with "error",
> which throws a TCL exception, then the current test case will abort,
> although in this quite ugly way:

Argh. I was hoping that we would be able to add something at the end
of the timeout handler to abort, but in a nice way.

So, IIUC, without help from dejagnu, there is no way we know of
to abort testcases...

Thanks for having looked into this!
-- 
Joel