Hi Andrew,

FYI - I have also filed a Bugzilla ticket to track this issue:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34058

Regards
Abhay Kandpal

Hi Andrew,

We are observing new test failures on both Power10 and Power9 following the recent patch:

commit 5ed98c177f9a2381fe5c6ab873d05f1e5dcb8f7f Author: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> Date:   Wed Feb 4 20:31:31 2026 +0000     gdb: introduce '**' for skip globs

Failure cases:

FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=xxx: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=xxx: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=xxx: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=aa/bb*/file*.*c*: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=aa/bb*/file*.*c*: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=bb/*.c: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/*.c: skip func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/*.c: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/**/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/**/*.c: skip func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/**/*.c: skip func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/ff/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/ff/*.c: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ee/ff/*.c: skip func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=dd/**/**/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=dd/**/**/*.c: skip func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=dd/**/**/*.c: skip func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ROOT/aa/bb/*.c: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=true: spec=ROOT/aa/bb/*.c: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=xxx: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=xxx: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=xxx: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=aa/bb*/file*.*c*: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=aa/bb*/file*.*c*: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=bb/*.c: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/*.c: skip func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/*.c: step into func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/**/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/**/*.c: skip func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/**/*.c: skip func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/ff/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/ff/*.c: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ee/ff/*.c: skip func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=dd/**/**/*.c: step into func2 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=dd/**/**/*.c: skip func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=dd/**/**/*.c: skip func4 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ROOT/aa/bb/*.c: step into func3 FAIL: gdb.base/skip-tree.exp: relative_compile_filenames=false: spec=ROOT/aa/bb/*.c: step into func4         === gdb Summary === # of expected passes        160 # of unexpected failures    40

Environment details:

P10 (ppc64le) NAME="Fedora Linux" VERSION="43 (Server Edition)" P9 (ppc64le) PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu"

These failures started appearing after the above patch was applied.

Please let us know if you need additional logs or details.

Regards
Abhay Kandpal