Re: Several regressions and we branch soon.

[Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Jun 30 2015, Yao Qi wrote:

> Andreas Arnez <arnez@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>
>> Right, this was considered in the patch.  But only what I've actually
>> seen fail in my testing is marked as KFAIL.  Since more FAILs are
>> observed now, maybe we could mark them as KFAIL as well.  Or skip them
>> altogether, like in the patch below.  WDYT?
>
> I am inclined to skip them altogether, but I think we need skip more.
> With your patch applied,  I still see them in gdb.sum
>
>  KFAIL: gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp: call add_some_intvecs (PRMS: gdb/18537)
>  KPASS: gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp: call add_many_charvecs (PRMS gdb/18537)
>  KFAIL: gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp: call add_various_floatvecs (PRMS: gdb/18537)
>  KFAIL: gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp: call add_structvecs (PRMS: gdb/18537)
>  KFAIL: gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp: skip remaining vector ABI tests on this arch (PRMS: gdb/18537)
>
> KPASS is confusing here.  I'd like to skip all of them on x86 and emit
> UNSUPPORTED in gdb.sum, because we've already know that vector infcall
> doesn't support on x86, UNSUPPORTED is better than KFAIL, IMO.

You're probably right.  I chose KFAIL because GDB doesn't provide any
indication that this is not expected to work correctly, but yields a
wrong result instead.  Anyway, the KFAILs obviously bring more trouble
than benefit, and UNSUPPORTED looks good enough to me.

So how about this?

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] gnu_vector.exp: Skip infcall tests on x86/x86_64

Since the new KFAILs/KPASSs for the infcall tests on x86 and x86_64
targets generated unnecessary noise, this change skips them with
UNSUPPORTED instead.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp: On x86 and x86_64 targets, skip the
	infcall tests instead of setting up for KFAIL.
---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp |   13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp
index cf91fbb..173da4d 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gnu_vector.exp
@@ -177,16 +177,19 @@ gdb_test "ptype struct_with_vector_1" "type = struct {\r\n\[\t \]+int i;\r\n\[\t
 
 # Test inferior function calls with vector arguments and/or vector
 # return values.
-setup_kfail gdb/18537 "i?86-*-*" "x86_64-*-*"
+if { [istarget "i?86-*-*"] || [istarget "x86_64-*-*" ] } {
+    # These platforms don't support infcalls with vector arguments
+    # and/or vector return values, so skip the remaining tests.
+    # See also PR exp/18537.
+    unsupported "skip remaining vector ABI tests on this arch"
+    return
+}
 gdb_test "print add_some_intvecs(i4a, i4b, 3 * i4a)" "= \\{17, 34, 72, 132\\}" \
     "call add_some_intvecs"
-setup_kfail gdb/18537 "i?86-*-*" "x86_64-*-*"
 gdb_test "print add_many_charvecs(c4, c4, c4, c4, c4, c4, c4, c4, c4, c4)" \
     "= \\{10, 20, 30, 40\\}" "call add_many_charvecs"
-setup_kfail gdb/18537 "i?86-*-*" "x86_64-*-*"
 gdb_test "print add_various_floatvecs(2, f4a, f4b)" "= \\{3, 6, 16, 20\\}" \
     "call add_various_floatvecs"
-setup_kfail gdb/18537 "i?86-*-*" "x86_64-*-*"
 gdb_test "print add_structvecs(i2, (struct just_int2)\{2*i2\}, (struct two_int2)\{3*i2, 4*i2\})" \
     "= \\{i = \\{10, 20\\}\\}" "call add_structvecs"
 gdb_test "print add_singlevecs((char1) \{6\}, (int1) \{12\}, (double1) \{24\})" "= \\{42\\}" \
@@ -195,7 +198,6 @@ gdb_test "print add_singlevecs((char1) \{6\}, (int1) \{12\}, (double1) \{24\})"
 # Test vector return value handling with "finish" and "return".
 gdb_breakpoint "add_some_intvecs"
 gdb_continue "add_some_intvecs"
-setup_kfail gdb/18537 "i?86-*-*" "x86_64-*-*"
 gdb_test "finish" "Value returned is .* = \\{10, 20, 48, 72\\}" \
     "finish shows vector return value"
 gdb_continue "add_some_intvecs"
@@ -203,5 +205,4 @@ gdb_test "return (int4) \{4, 2, 7, 6\}" \
     "#0 .* main .*" \
     "set vector return value" \
     "Make add_some_intvecs return now. .y or n.*" "y"
-setup_kfail gdb/18537 "i?86-*-*" "x86_64-*-*"
 gdb_test "continue" "4 2 7 6\r\n.*" "verify vector return value"
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