Running the testsuite with the native-extended-gdbserver.exp board and
passing a variant spec, like
make check RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=native-extended-gdbserver/-m32"
results in dejagnu trying to open a rsh connection to
"native-extended-gdbserver", which of course is wrong. The point of
this board is running things locally.
The issue is that the native-extended-gdbserver board does not clear
the "isremote" flag properly.
Reported by Sergio at:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-02/msg00067.html
testsuite/
2015-02-04 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* boards/native-extended-gdbserver.exp: Remove any target variant
specifications from the board name before clearing the isremote
flag from board_info.
In a test I was writting, I needed a procedure that would connect to
the target, and do "load", or equivalent.
Years ago, boards would override gdb_load to implement that. Then
gdb_reload was added, and gdb_load was relaxed to allow boards avoid
the spawing and connecting to the target. This sped up gdbserver
testing. See
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-02/msg00318.html.
To actually spawn the target and load the executable on the target
side, gdb_reload was born:
# gdb_reload -- load a file into the target. Called before "running",
# either the first time or after already starting the program once,
# for remote targets. Most files that override gdb_load should now
# override this instead.
proc gdb_reload { } {
# For the benefit of existing configurations, default to gdb_load.
# Specifying no file defaults to the executable currently being
# debugged.
return [gdb_load ""]
}
Note the comment about specifying no file. Indeed looking at
config/sid.exp, or config/monitor.exp, we see examples of that.
However, the default gdb_load itself doesn't handle the case of no
file specified. When passed no file, it just calls gdb_file_cmd with
no file either, which ends up invocing the "file" command with no
argument, which means unloading the file and its symbols... That
means calling gdb_reload when testing against native targets is
broken. We don't see that today because the only call to gdb_reload
that exists today is guarded by target_info exists
gdb,do_reload_on_run.
The native-extended-gdbserver.exp board is likewise broken here. When
[gdb_load ""] is called, the board sets the remote exec-file to "" ...
Tested on x86_64 Fedora 17, native, remote gdbserver and
extended-remote gdbserver.
testsuite/
2014-05-01 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_load): Extend comment. Skip calling
gdb_file_cmd if no file is specified.
* boards/native-extended-gdbserver.exp (gdb_load): Use the
last_loaded_file to set the remote exec-file.
In extended-remote, when GDB connects the target, but target is not
running, the TSVs are not uploaded. When GDB attaches to a process,
the TSVs are not uploaded either. However, GDBserver has some
builtin or predefined TSV to upload, such as $trace_timestamp. This
bug causes $trace_timestamp is never uploaded.
gdb/
2013-06-25 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* remote.c (remote_start_remote): Move code to upload tsv
earlier.
gdb/testsuite/
2013-06-25 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* boards/native-extended-gdbserver.exp: Set board_info
'gdb,predefined_tsv'.
* boards/native-gdbserver.exp: Likewise.
* boards/native-stdio-gdbserver.exp: Likewise.
* gdb.server/ext-attach.exp: Load trace-support.exp. Check
uploaded TSVs if target supports tracing.
* gdb.trace/tsv.exp: Check uploaded TSVs if target supports
tracing and target has predefined tsv.
gdb/doc/
2013-06-25 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
* gdbint.texinfo (Testsuite): Document 'gdb,predefined_tsv'.
Two modifications:
1. The addition of 2013 to the copyright year range for every file;
2. The use of a single year range, instead of potentially multiple
year ranges, as approved by the FSF.