Re: [RFC] gdb.base/frame-args.exp

[Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>]

Hi Yao,

On 07/03/2014 07:44 AM, Yao Qi wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 03:56 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
>> So it looks like we are taking a different route and GDB ends up
>> catching an error before displaying the optimized out information, thus
>> not matching what the testcase expects.
>>
>> I could add a different pattern to the testcase and that would solve the
>> couple failures i see, but i wonder if we should tweak the testcase to
>> dodge optimizations?
>
> Hi Luis,
> Andrew Burgess had a patch changing "<error reading variable: value has
> been optimized out>" to "<optimized out>" in this thread,
>
>    PATCH: error reading variable: value has been optimized out
>    https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2012-08/msg00715.html
>
> so I think "<optimized out>" is the right direction to go.  We should
> fix gdb rather than update test case to match the current output, IMO.
>

Excellent! Thanks for pointing that out. Seeing the date of the patch, i 
suppose it has not gone in.

Regards,
Luis