Re: Setting test suite not to try debug output cases

["Koning, Paul" <Paul.Koning@dell.com>]

> On Sep 5, 2022, at 5:29 AM, Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 8:57 PM Koning, Paul via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Given that pdp11 no longer supports debug output, I get a lot more test failures, like this:
>> 
>> spawn -ignore SIGHUP /Users/pkoning/Documents/svn/build/pdp/gcc/xgcc -B/Users/pkoning/Documents/svn/build/pdp/gcc/ -mlra -fdiagnostics-plain-output -Og -g -w -c -o 20000105-1.o /Users/pkoning/Documents/svn/gcc/gcc/testsuite/gcc.c-torture/compile/20000105-1.c
>> xgcc: warning: target system does not support debug output
>> cc1: warning: target system does not support debug output
>> FAIL: gcc.c-torture/compile/20000105-1.c   -Og -g  (test for excess errors)
>> 
>> I assume there is some way in the test suite machinery to globally skip all "debug output" cases.  How would I do that?
> 
> Hmm.  In testsuite/lib/prune.exp there's
> 
>    # Ignore stabs obsoletion warnings
>    regsub -all "(^|\n)\[^\n\]*\[Ww\]arning: STABS debugging
> information is obsolete and not supported anymore\[^\n\]*" $text ""
> text
> 
> maybe you can (selectively for pdp11) add similar pruning of the
> 'target system does not support debug output' message?
> I think you should be able to use
> 
>   if { [istarget pdp11-*-*] } then {
>     regsub -all " ... " ...
>   }

Thanks, I'll look into that.  Should it be more general to cover any other targets that don't have debug output?  I think pdp11 isn't the only one but I'm not sure.

	paul