Re: [RFA] [gdb.threads/testsuite] failure while checking backtrace into main

[Denis PILAT <denis.pilat@st.com>]

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> While checking for non-regression in the gdb.threads part of the 
> testsuite, I noticed one test fails with gcc4 since the argument of 
> the main are removed by the compiler so don't appear when printing 
> backtrace:
> FAIL: gdb.threads/pthreads.exp: check backtrace from main thread
>
> Either we can change the .exp file to avoid checking these arguments, 
> or we can ensure compiler keeps them as proposed hereby.

We can also just remove the testing of argc and argv from the 
pthreads.exp file, that would be better I think.

-- 
Denis


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2007-02-02  Denis Pilat  <denis.pilat@st.com>

	* gdb.threads/pthreads.exp: remove checking of unused argc and argv
	since they can be removed by a compiler optiisation.

Index: testsuite/gdb.threads/pthreads.exp
===================================================================
--- testsuite/gdb.threads/pthreads.exp	(revision 553)
+++ testsuite/gdb.threads/pthreads.exp	(working copy)
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
     # Check that the "thread apply N backtrace" command works
 
     gdb_test "thread apply $main_id backtrace" \
-	    ".* in main \\(argc=.*, argv=.*\\).*" \
+	    ".* in main \\(.*\\).*" \
 	    "check backtrace from main thread"
     gdb_test "thread apply $thread1_id backtrace" \
 	    ".* in thread1 \\(arg=0xfeedface\\).*" \