Re: Stabs or Dwarf Was: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>]

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> Hi Stan,
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> Stan Shebs wrote:
> >
> > I can't think of a completely reliable test on binary files.  For
> > instance, in original a.out, stabs are plain symbols, not in a
> > distinctly-named section.  You also have the problem of an executable
> > maybe having libraries compiled with stabs, and main prog with dwarf,
> > and objdump can't distinguish.
> >
> 
> True.
> 
> I was thinking just in terms of the testsuite.  Most test programs are
> a single file.  Could we test just the object file for that one?
> 
> Another idea: if we can't say t is stabs but we can say it is dwarf,
> we could implement a gdb_is_dwarf instead.  Would that help?

The "info source" command will give you that information.
Haven't tried it with AOUT, but it works with stabs/elf and 
dwarf/elf.  If we got a positive for dwarf we could run the test.