Re: [PATCH] auxv support

[Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>]

> I've written a new test case for the live process support, grokking native
> core files, and gcore.  It works peachy on Linux 2.6 and on Solaris.  It
> should work omitting the native core dump part for remote, but I don't know
> off hand how to test that.  Are there runtest arguments to make it run
> gdbserver for tests?  (I tried --target_board linux-gdbserver, but that
> tries to do "rsh linux-gdbserver ../gdbserver/gdbserver ..." instead of
> running gdbserver locally.  I can't figure out how to make it not use rsh,
> or use a hostname other than "linux-gdbserver".)

I'd not worry (I think that should instead use "(gdb) target remote 
|gdbserver").

> However, on a system that does not support getting the auxv data, it shows
> three failures.  What is the right thing to do about this?  The difficulty
> is that the error from `info auxv' does not distinguish an error/bug in
> reading the data from the target code not supporting auxv access or from
> the native system not supporting the access even though the gdb target code
> does (e.g. Linux < 2.6).

Just a few tweaks:

> 2004-02-23  Roland McGrath  <roland@redhat.com>
> 
> 	* gdb.base/auxv.exp: New file.
> 
> Index: testsuite/gdb.base/auxv.exp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: testsuite/gdb.base/auxv.exp
> diff -N testsuite/gdb.base/auxv.exp
> --- /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> +++ testsuite/gdb.base/auxv.exp	24 Feb 2004 03:06:02 -0000
> @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@
> +# Test `info auxv' and related functionality.
> +
> +# Copyright 1992,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,2000,04 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Just write the years in full.

> +set testfile "coremaker2"
> +set srcfile ${testfile}.c

Here a new file "auxv.c" is prefered for the new test (making a copy of 
coremaker2.c is ok).

Otherwize, remember to post the final patch when committing,

thanks,
Andrew

> +set binfile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}
> +set corefile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}.corefile
> +set gcorefile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}.gcore