[Bug testsuite/29772] New: [gdb/testsuite] Detect duplicates for "FAIL: foo" and "FAIL: foo (timeout)"

[Bug testsuite/29772] New: [gdb/testsuite] Detect duplicates for "FAIL: foo" and "FAIL: foo (timeout)"

[vries at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29772

            Bug ID: 29772
           Summary: [gdb/testsuite] Detect duplicates for "FAIL: foo" and
                    "FAIL: foo (timeout)"
           Product: gdb
           Version: HEAD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: testsuite
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: vries at gcc dot gnu.org
  Target Milestone: ---

I noticed here ( https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/GDBTestcaseCookbook ):
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Do not use "tail parentheses" on test messages

When you write a test, do not put text between parentheses preceded by a space
at the end of the text message. For example, this is incorrect:

gdb_test "some_test" "expected output" "I am a test message (123)"
...

I then noticed that when checking for duplicates, we do detect:
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FAIL: gdb.testsuite/duplicate.exp: foo
FAIL: gdb.testsuite/duplicate.exp: foo
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but not:
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FAIL: gdb.testsuite/duplicate.exp: foo
FAIL: gdb.testsuite/duplicate.exp: foo (timeout)
...

I wrote a patch to fix this:
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/check-test-names.exp
b/gdb/testsuite/lib/check-test
-names.exp
index 752981c7888..fac93259464 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/check-test-names.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/check-test-names.exp
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ namespace eval ::CheckTestNames {
     proc _check_duplicates { message } {
        variable all_test_names

+       # Remove the "extra information" part.
+       set message [regsub { \(.*\)$} $message ""]
+
        # Initialise a count, or increment the count for this test name.
        if {![info exists all_test_names($message)]} {
            set all_test_names($message) 0
...

I ran into 6453 duplicates in 134 test-cases:
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$ grep DUPLICATE: gdb.sum | wc -l
6453
$ grep DUPLICATE: gdb.sum | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u | wc -l
134
...

For instance:
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DUPLICATE: gdb.arch/amd64-osabi.exp: arch=i386:x86-64: print sizeof (long
double)
DUPLICATE: gdb.arch/amd64-osabi.exp: arch=i386:x64-32: print sizeof (long
double)
DUPLICATE: gdb.arch/amd64-osabi.exp: arch=i386: print sizeof (long double)
...

It may be worthwhile to override all pass / fail procs to do some automated
test name substitution:
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-PASS: gdb.arch/amd64-osabi.exp: arch=i386:x86-64: print sizeof (long double)
+PASS: gdb.arch/amd64-osabi.exp: arch=i386:x86-64: print sizeof _(long double)_
...
and create extra versions fail_with_info to do:
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-fail "$testname (timeout)"
+fail_with_info $testname "timeout"
...

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[Bug testsuite/29772] [gdb/testsuite] Detect duplicates for "FAIL: foo" and "FAIL: foo (timeout)"

[vries at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29772

--- Comment #1 from Tom de Vries <vries at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
Created attachment 14449
  --> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=14449&action=edit
tentative patch, fixes one test-case

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[Bug testsuite/29772] [gdb/testsuite] Detect duplicates for "FAIL: foo" and "FAIL: foo (timeout)"

[pedro at palves dot net]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29772

Pedro Alves <pedro at palves dot net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |pedro at palves dot net

--- Comment #2 from Pedro Alves <pedro at palves dot net> ---
For tests like:

  print sizeof (long double)

or in general any "print func (type...)" test, we can just remove the space
before parens:

  print sizeof(long double)
  print func(type)

The advantage is that the testcase name is still valid syntax.

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[Bug testsuite/29772] [gdb/testsuite] Detect duplicates for "FAIL: foo" and "FAIL: foo (timeout)"

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29772

Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |tromey at sourceware dot org

--- Comment #3 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
I tried this and ugh... I wonder if it would be simpler to
change the suffix for auxiliary information.  Really it
would be nicer if this were a dejagnu feature, like
fail -reason Text testname

... but meanwhile what if we made it something unlikely to appear
in real syntax, like fail "testname <<<timeout>>>"

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[Bug testsuite/29772] [gdb/testsuite] Detect duplicates for "FAIL: foo" and "FAIL: foo (timeout)"

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

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--- Comment #4 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
I fixed the buglets here in gdb.rust, but the process seems a bit
daunting for the entire test suite.  I didn't look at how hard it
would be to change the suffix.

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