Re: [PATCH] gdb: tests: mark async unsupported dynamically

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 24 Jun 2015 12:25, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 06/20/2015 04:17 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > There are many targets which do not support asynchronous execution.
> > Rather than having the async tests mark them as FAIL, use UNSUPPORTED
> > as that better represents the state.
> > ---
> > 2015-06-19  Mike Frysinger  <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > 
> > 	* gdb.base/async.exp (test_background): Call unsupported when async
> > 	isn't supported.
> > 
> >  gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/async.exp | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/async.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/async.exp
> > index 2d3fb73..4b9168a 100644
> > --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/async.exp
> > +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/async.exp
> > @@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ proc test_background {command before_prompt after_prompt {message ""}} {
> >  	-re "^$command\r\n${before_prompt}${gdb_prompt}${after_prompt}completed\.\r\n" {
> >  	    pass "$message"
> >  	}
> > +	-re "Asynchronous execution not supported on this target\.\r\n" {
> > +	    unsupported "$message"
> > +	}
> >  	-re "$gdb_prompt.*completed\.\r\n" {
> >  	    fail "$message"
> >  	}
> > 
> 
> We should also return something that the caller checks to bail the
> rest of the file.  Otherwise, as soon as we add something to the
> test that expects that e.g., "print foo" returns some value after the
> previous async commands worked, that test will fail on sync targets.

returning an error on unsupported makes sense.  but if we fail in general, don't 
want to run all tests and such still ?
-mike

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