Re: [committed][gdb/testsuite] Make gdb.mi/mi-sym-info.exp more robust against timeouts

[Luis Machado via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On 4/30/21 10:06 AM, Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2021-04-30 8:55 a.m., Luis Machado via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be more reliable to do line-by-line matching instead of sprinkling timeouts across the test? Or so I've been told.
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be an instance where GDB is taking too long, but rather that the MI output is very verbose, right?
> 
>  From what I can see, it's a case of GDB thinking for a long time
> (gathering symbols) before outputting anything.  You can see it
> by having a
> 
>    $ tail -F testsuite/gdb.log
> 
> on the side, while you run the test.
> 
> Another one that I found times out in a similar way on my machine is
> gdb.base/info-os.exp.
> 
> Simon
> 

Fair enough. But I also see the output being 113K chars in one case, no 
line breaks. I think these instances of very long lines are something to 
be dealt with.