Re: Enable non-stop mode MI tests against remote targets.

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:

> On Thursday 26 March 2009 02:28:28, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On Thursday 26 March 2009 00:54:52, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> > With this patch, the MI non-stop mode tests pass cleanly against
>> > gdbserver once the gdbserver non-stop mode patch is applied:
>> > 
>> >  http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-03/msg00582.html
>> > 
>> > The tests currently assume a native GDB.  They use -exec-run
>> > directly.  I've changed them to use mi_run_to_main, which
>> > works nicelly.  To make the tests fails fail gracefully when
>> > the remote side doesn't support non-stop mode, I've made
>> > mi_run_to_main and its callees propagate an error return up,
>> > similarly to CLI's runto_main.  This means that this patch can go
>> > in before the gdbserver bits go in.  Most other MI tests could be
>> > adjusted to do the same "if { [mi_run_to_main] < 0 } { BAIL }"
>> > check, which avoids cascasted FAILs and timeouts.
>> > 
>> > Vladimir, do you think this looks OK?
> 
> 
> Hi Vladimir, gdbserver now supports non-stop mode, so we need
> to be able to test it.  :-)  Do you have any comments on
> this approach?

Thanks for asking. I think it's fine!

- Volodya