[PATCH 1/2] Introduce procedure use_gdb_stub

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>]

This patch introduces the use_gdb_stub procedure, which allows getting
the right value of the use_gdb_stub variable/property in any all
situations.

When calling it before the $use_gdb_stub global variable has been set,
it will return the value of the use_gdb_stub property from the board
file.  This happens when tests want to bail out early (even before gdb
has been started) when the current test setup is a stub.

Otherwise, it returns the value of the $use_gdb_stub global.

It's possible for these two to differ when a test file overrides the
value of the global.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

	* lib/gdb.exp (use_gdb_stub): New procedure.
---
 gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index 5a5a8fb..6d25b0c 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -3053,6 +3053,26 @@ proc gdb_is_target_remote {} {
     return [gdb_is_target_remote_prompt "$gdb_prompt $"]
 }
 
+# Return the effective value of use_gdb_stub.
+#
+# If the use_gdb_stub global has been set (it is set when the gdb process is
+# spawned), return that.  Otherwise, return the value of the use_gdb_stub
+# property from the board file.
+#
+# This is the preferred way of checking use_gdb_stub, since it allows to check
+# the value before the gdb has been spawned and it will return the correct value
+# even when it was overriden by the test.
+
+proc use_gdb_stub {} {
+  global use_gdb_stub
+
+  if [info exists use_gdb_stub] {
+     return $use_gdb_stub
+  }
+
+  return [target_info exists use_gdb_stub]
+}
+
 # Return 1 if the current remote target is an instance of our GDBserver, 0
 # otherwise.  Return -1 if there was an error and we can't tell.
 
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