From: Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
To: Luis Machado <luis.machado@linaro.org>,
Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [committed][gdb/testsuite] Make gdb.mi/mi-sym-info.exp more robust against timeouts
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 09:06:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26770214-5135-391b-6bd0-4b5f39b97149@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1c7ee1d2-9ff0-645c-3a0e-b6d1ed3f328f@linaro.org>
On 2021-04-30 8:55 a.m., Luis Machado via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Wouldn't it be more reliable to do line-by-line matching instead of sprinkling timeouts across the test? Or so I've been told.
>
> This doesn't seem to be an instance where GDB is taking too long, but rather that the MI output is very verbose, right?
From what I can see, it's a case of GDB thinking for a long time
(gathering symbols) before outputting anything. You can see it
by having a
$ tail -F testsuite/gdb.log
on the side, while you run the test.
Another one that I found times out in a similar way on my machine is
gdb.base/info-os.exp.
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-30 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-30 9:27 Tom de Vries
2021-04-30 12:55 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-04-30 13:05 ` tdevries
2021-04-30 13:06 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches [this message]
2021-04-30 13:20 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-04-30 13:28 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
2021-04-30 13:34 ` Luis Machado via Gdb-patches
2021-04-30 13:41 ` Simon Marchi via Gdb-patches
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