Re: [PATCH v2] Avoid self-test failures on x86-linux

[Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 10/29/21 10:31 AM, Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches wrote:
>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:
> 
> Tom> The disassembly tests in "maint selftest" will fail on x86-linux.
> Tom> This happens because opcodes rejects an attempt to disassemble for an
> Tom> arch with a 64-bit address size when bfd_vma is 32-bit.
> 
> Tom> This patch avoids this problem by avoiding the test in this case.  I
> Tom> chose to do it this way because this seems to be the only situation
> Tom> where opcodes checks the size of bfd_vma.
> 
> Tom> For v2 of this patch, I've also updated memory_error_test to do the
> Tom> same thing.  This is needed due to the "improve error reporting from
> Tom> the disassembler" patch.
> 
> I'm checking this in.
> 
> Tom
> 

Isn't this a broader issue? I recently reported some failures in the 
gdb.base/all-architectures-2.exp, where disassembling fails due to 
(apparently) some recent changes in error reporting.