Re: ping: [testsuite patch] for: [PATCH] [PR corefiles/17808] i386: Fix internal error when prstatus in core file is too big

[Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>]

Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

> Because this testcase comes from a different bug from 2009:
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457187
> 	http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gdb.git/commit/?id=94cd124608bf0dd359cb48a710800d72c21b30c3
>
> That bug has been fixed in the meantime but the same testcase was reproducing
> this new different bug - internal error regression - so I submitted
> it.

I see, that is clear to me now.

>
> We can remove the "x/i $address" test but it was useful for the previous bug
> from 2009 as that time the internal error regression did not happen, just the
> core file was not recognized (which would not be detected by the proposed
> ignoring of the "core-file" command output) and so the core file was not
> available.  That can be tested by the "x/i $address" test.
>

Yeah, I agree it is useful to keep this test there, but we need comments
on the purpose of such test, for example,

# Test bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457187
gdb_test "x/i $address" "\r\n\[ \t\]*$address:\[ \t\]*hlt\[ \t\]*" ".text is readable"

>
> But we could be upstreaming much more Fedora testcases which I do not plan to.
> Fedora contains many testcases - 49
> 	grep '^#=' gdb.spec|sed 's/[:+].*//'|sort|uniq -c
> 	49 #=fedoratest
> for various bugs already fixed upstream.  But given there isn't enough work
> resources to upstream even Fedora fixes (hacks) I have never much attempted to
> upstream all the testcases there.
> 	http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/gdb.git/tree/
> (Some/few of the testcases are also a different form of the upstreamed variant
> of the same testcase kept to be really sure no regressions are needlessly
> missed in Fedora/RHEL.)

I don't work on any distribution, so I don't know.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)