From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/37] GDB: testsuite: Fix top-level returns
Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 11:47:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877bpdoksq.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260429230432.60487-1-thiago.bauermann@linaro.org> (Thiago Jung Bauermann's message of "Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:03:51 -0300")
>>>>> "Thiago" == Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org> writes:
Thiago> In the past, when testcases needed to return early they would do a "return
Thiago> -1" or sometimes a "return 0". Nowadays the style is to do do a "return"
Thiago> without any value.
Thiago> When creating new testcases, we often copy snippets from older files which
Thiago> do return a value so the old style keeps spreading. In an effort to reduce
Thiago> the bad examples, this patch series fixes the return statements that were
Thiago> easy to find and verify for correctness. I didn't try to remove all of the
Thiago> "wrong" instances.
I didn't really read these patches in depth. However I agree with the
general approach and I think it is a good change for the reasons you
stated.
I did randomly sample the patches to see if they made sense.
Anyway I think these should go in. I can't really imagine doing a more
in-depth review.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Tom
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2026-04-29 23:03 Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 01/37] GDB: testsuite: aarch64, arm: Don't return value from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 02/37] GDB: testsuite: aarch64, arm: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 03/37] GDB: testsuite: x86, amd64, i386, ia64: Don't return value from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 04/37] GDB: testsuite: x86, amd64, i386: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 05/37] GDB: testsuite: powerpc: Don't return value from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 06/37] GDB: testsuite: powerpc: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 07/37] GDB: testsuite: riscv: Don't return value from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:03 ` [PATCH v2 08/37] GDB: testsuite: riscv: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 09/37] GDB: testsuite: s390: Don't return value from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 10/37] GDB: testsuite: sparc: " Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 11/37] GDB: testsuite: Don't return value from top-level in tests of various arches Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 12/37] GDB: testsuite: Don't return value from top-level in multi-arch tests Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 13/37] GDB: testsuite: base: Don't return -1 from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 14/37] GDB: testsuite: base: Don't return 0 " Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 15/37] GDB: testsuite: base: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-05-08 22:01 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 16/37] GDB: testsuite: C++: Don't return value from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 17/37] GDB: testsuite: C++: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 18/37] GDB: testsuite: DWARF: Don't return value from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 19/37] GDB: testsuite: DWARF: Don't return -1 from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 20/37] GDB: testsuite: GDB: Don't return -1 from top-level Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 21/37] GDB: testsuite: Guile: " Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 22/37] GDB: testsuite: Python: Don't return -1 from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 23/37] GDB: testsuite: Python: Don't return 0 " Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 24/37] GDB: testsuite: Python: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 25/37] GDB: testsuite: linespec: Don't return value from top-level Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 26/37] GDB: testsuite: MI: Don't return -1 from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 27/37] GDB: testsuite: MI: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 28/37] GDB: testsuite: reverse: Don't return -1 from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 29/37] GDB: testsuite: reverse: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 30/37] GDB: testsuite: server: Don't return -1 from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 31/37] GDB: testsuite: server: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 32/37] GDB: testsuite: threads: Don't return -1 from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 33/37] GDB: testsuite: threads: Don't return 0 " Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 34/37] GDB: testsuite: threads: Don't return value from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 35/37] GDB: testsuite: TUI: Don't return -1 from top-level (sed) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 36/37] GDB: testsuite: TUI: Don't return 0 from top-level (manual) Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-04-29 23:04 ` [PATCH v2 37/37] GDB: testsuite: XML: Don't return -1 nor 0 from top-level Thiago Jung Bauermann
2026-05-08 17:47 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2026-05-08 22:06 ` [PATCH v2 00/37] GDB: testsuite: Fix top-level returns Thiago Jung Bauermann
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