[Bug testsuite/29778] [gdb/testsuite] Revise untested usage

["vries at gcc dot gnu.org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29778

--- Comment #7 from Tom de Vries <vries at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Tom de Vries from comment #4)
> (In reply to Simon Marchi from comment #3)
> > > And then there are the test-cases that use proc skip_ variants which largely seem happy to skip only doing "verbose $msg" or just silently.
> > 
> > I think all tests should at least record at least one untested or
> > unsupported, so that there's a trace in gdb.sum.
> 
> I think that's an ok principle, but once the volume grows the usefulness is
> reduced.
> 
> I think it's fine to avoid generating noise.  For instance, I would consider
> it noise to record that a ppc64-specific test is not run on x86_64.

And we could also avoid noise by emitting one untested/unsupported per skip
group.  I don't need to know that gdb.server/*.exp is skipped for each
test-case, if gdbserver is unavailable.

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