Hi Ulrich,

Please find attached the patch. See:- 0001-Change-gdb.base-examine-backwards.exp-for-AIX.patch

>>So shall we remove this const and create the git patch?

>Yes, I think this would be the better solution.

Kindly push this patch if there are no changes. If not let me know.

Thanks and regards,
Aditya.


From: Ulrich Weigand <Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com>
Date: Monday, 6 November 2023 at 6:37 PM
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, Aditya Kamath1 <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com>
Cc: Sangamesh Mallayya <sangamesh.swamy@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]-Change gdb.base/examine-backwards.exp testcase for AIX
Aditya Kamath1 <Aditya.Kamath1@ibm.com> wrote:
>> I assume the existing dummy assignment
>>   int dummy = Barrier[0] + TestStrings[0] + TestStringsH[0] + TestStringsW[0];
>> is optimized out on AIX for some reason?
>>
>> Does it work if you move "dummy" to be global variable,
>> and/or make the Barrier and TestStrings* variable non-const?
>
>Yes Ulrich. It works if we make variables non-const. Kindly see the output below.

OK, good.

>So shall we remove this const and create the git patch?

Yes, I think this would be the better solution.

Bye,
Ulrich