[PING] [PATCH v2 00/11] gdb/testsuite: Cleanup gdb.base for clang testing

[Bruno Larsen <blarsen@redhat.com>]

Kindly pinging

Cheers!
Bruno Larsen

On 4/11/22 17:13, Bruno Larsen wrote:
> When testing GDB with clang, gdb.base had over 50 more failures than when
> testing with gcc.  Examining the failed tests led to a few clang bugs, a
> few GDB bugs, and many testsuite assumptions that could be changed.
> 
> After this patch series, nothing should be changed for testing with gcc,
> and testing with clang should only show non-trivial failures for
> maint.exp and macscp.exp, along with the same GCC failures.
> 
> Changes in v2:
>      * Introduced gdb_step_until_regexp, based on Pedro's and Andrew's suggestions
>      * reworked fixes for: skip.exp, skip-solib.exp and msym-bp-shl.exp
>      * Used Pedro's suggestion for call-ar-st
>      * reordered patches slightly
> 
> Bruno Larsen (11):
>    gdb/testsuite: introduce gdb_step_until_regexp
>    Change gdb.base/skip-solib.exp deal with lack of epilogue information
>    change gdb.base/skip.exp to use finish instead of step
>    change gdb.base/symbol-alias to xfail with clang
>    change gdb.base/nodebug.c to not fail with clang
>    update gdb.base/info-program.exp to not fail with clang
>    fix gdb.base/access-mem-running.exp for clang testing
>    Fix gdb.base/call-ar-st to work with Clang
>    add xfails to gdb.base/complex-parts.exp when testing with clang
>    gdb/testsuite: fix gdb.base/msym-bp-shl when running with Clang
>    explicitly test for stderr in gdb.base/dprintf.exp
> 
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/access-mem-running.c |   2 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/call-ar-st.exp       |  13 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/complex-parts.exp    |   5 +
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/dprintf.exp          |  10 ++
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/info-program.exp     |   2 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/msym-bp-shl.exp      |   8 +
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/nodebug.c            |   2 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/nodebug.exp          |   2 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/skip-inline.exp      |  18 ++-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/skip-solib-lib.c     |   3 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/skip-solib-main.c    |   3 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/skip-solib.exp       |  12 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/skip.exp             | 164 ++++++++++++++++----
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/symbol-alias.exp     |   9 +-
>   gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp                   |  30 ++++
>   15 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
>