[PATCH][gdb/testsuite] Detect change instead of init in gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp

[PATCH][gdb/testsuite] Detect change instead of init in gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp

[Tom de Vries]

Hi,

On openSUSE Tumbleweed with target board unix/-m32, I run into:
...
PASS: gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp: step at do_block_test 2
Expecting: ^(-var-update \*[^M
]+)?(\^done,changelist=\[{name="foo",in_scope="true",type_changed="false",has_more="0"},
{name="cb",in_scope="true",type_changed="false",has_more="0"}\][^M
]+[(]gdb[)] ^M
[ ]*)
-var-update *^M
^done,changelist=[{name="foo",in_scope="true",type_changed="false",has_more="0"}]^M
(gdb) ^M
FAIL: gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp: update all vars: cb foo changed (unexpected output)
...

The problem is that the test-case attempts to detect a change in the cb
variable caused by this initialization:
...
void
do_block_tests ()
{
  int cb = 12;
...
but that only works if the stack location happens to be unequal to 12 before
the initialization.

Fix this by first initializing to 0, and then changing the value to 12:
...
-  int cb = 12;
+  int cb = 0;
+  cb = 12;
...
and detecting that change.

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29195

Any comments?

Thanks,
- Tom

[gdb/testsuite] Detect change instead of init in gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp

---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp | 5 +++++
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/var-cmd.c        | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp
index 2f8d39a6acd..a1ef2d1ad52 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ mi_gdb_load ${binfile}
 
 mi_runto do_block_tests
 
+# step to "cb = 12;"
+mi_step_to "do_block_tests" "" "var-cmd.c" \
+    [gdb_get_line_number "cb = 12;"] \
+    "step at do_block_test 0"
+
 # Test: c_variable-3.2
 # Desc: create cb and foo
 mi_create_varobj "cb" "cb" "create local variable cb"
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/var-cmd.c b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/var-cmd.c
index fddb0d39a5e..f3312788a80 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/var-cmd.c
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/var-cmd.c
@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ subroutine1 (int i, long *l)
 void
 do_block_tests ()
 {
-  int cb = 12;
+  int cb = 0;
+  cb = 12;
 
   {
     int foo;

Re: [PATCH][gdb/testsuite] Detect change instead of init in gdb.mi/mi-var-block.exp

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> Tom de Vries via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

> Fix this by first initializing to 0, and then changing the value to 12:
> ...
> -  int cb = 12;
> +  int cb = 0;
> +  cb = 12;
> ...
> and detecting that change.

Seems good to me.  Thank you.

Tom