[PATCH] gdb/testsuite: fix gdb.base/with.exp failure with, native-extended-gdbserver (was: New FAIL on gdb.base/with.exp on native-extended-gdbserver)

Simon Marchi
2020-05-11T14:54:59Z

On 2019-08-02 7:24 p.m., Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 03 2019, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
>> On 6/18/19 1:38 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>>>
>>> (gdb) help with
>>> Temporarily set SETTING to VALUE, run COMMAND, and restore SETTING.
>>> Usage: with SETTING [VALUE] [-- COMMAND]
>>> Usage: w SETTING [VALUE] [-- COMMAND]
>>> With no COMMAND, repeats the last executed command.
>>> SETTING is any setting settable with the "set" command.
>>> E.g.:
>>> with language pascal -- print obj
>>> with print elements unlimited -- print obj
>>>
>>
>> I've merged this in now.
>
> Hi Pedro,
>
> First of all, thanks for the nice feature.
>
> BuildBot has unfortunately caught a new failure on gdb.base/with.exp
> when run agains native-extended-gdbserver:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-testers/2019-q3/msg00213.html
>
> new FAIL: gdb.base/with.exp: repeat: reinvoke with no previous command to relaunch
>
> I've also found it here when preparing a new Fedora GDB release.
>
> Thanks,

Here's a patch for this

From 4927107e4d99cc81e36c699d5716ea8d76fb7101 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 10:17:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] gdb/testsuite: fix gdb.base/with.exp failure with
native-extended-gdbserver

I see this failure when running:

$ make check TESTS="gdb.base/with.exp" RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=native-extended-gdbserver"
FAIL: gdb.base/with.exp: repeat: reinvoke with no previous command to relaunch

This test issues `with language ada` and expects GDB to complain that
there is no command to repeat (either because the history is empty or
the previous command is non-repeatable). However, with the
native-extended-gdbserver board, the `set remote exec-file` command is
issued during `clean_restart`, and it is a repeatable command, so GDB
doesn't print the expected message:

(gdb) set remote exec-file /home/smarchi/build/binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/outputs/gdb.base/with/with^M
(gdb) with language ada^M
(gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/with.exp: repeat: reinvoke with no previous command to relaunch

Fix it by using gdb_spawn instead of clean_restart. gdb_spawn fires up
GDB and does not issue any command, not even `set height` and `set
width`.

I've also added a separate test for trying to repeat a non-repeatable
command, since that's a slightly different case than trying to repeat
without history.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

* gdb.base/with.exp: Start GDB with gdb_spawn for repeat test.
Add test for trying to repeat a non-repeatable command.
---
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/with.exp | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/with.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/with.exp
index a60ccf307468..e86e49618a7f 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/with.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/with.exp
@@ -175,15 +175,22 @@ with_test_prefix "user-defined" {

# Check repeating.
with_test_prefix "repeat" {
- clean_restart $binfile
+ # Start GDB like this (as opposed to gdb_start/clean_restart) for the first
+ # test to make sure no command is issued after starting the GDB process.
+ gdb_exit
+ gdb_spawn
+ gdb_test "" "" "wait for initial prompt"

- # "with" with no command reinvokes the previous command.
+ # "with" with no command in the history.
gdb_test "with language ada" \
"No previous command to relaunch" \
"reinvoke with no previous command to relaunch"

- gdb_test "print g_s" " = {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}"
+ # For the rest of this scope we need to have the binary loaded.
+ clean_restart $binfile

+ # "with" with no command reinvokes the previous command.
+ gdb_test "print g_s" " = {a = 1, b = 2, c = 3}"
gdb_test "with language ada" \
" = \\(a => 1, b => 2, c => 3\\)" \
"reinvoke with language"
@@ -202,6 +209,12 @@ with_test_prefix "repeat" {
pass $test
}
}
+
+ # "with" after a non-repeatable command.
+ gdb_test "display 123" "1: 123 = 123"
+ gdb_test "with language ada" \
+ "No previous command to relaunch" \
+ "reinvoke after a non-repeatable command"
}

# Basic run control.
--
2.26.2