Re: [patch v9 22/23] testsuite, gdb.btrace: add btrace tests

[Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>]

On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:06:09 +0100, Markus Metzger wrote:
> From: Christian Himpel <christian.himpel@intel.com>
> 
> Recursive function calls are listed as only one function call.  This is
> marked as an XFAIL.

That is a known defect of GDB, not a defect of system component we cannot fix.
Therefore it should be KFAIL and the problem should be described (copy/pasted)
to GDB Bugzilla to get a PR number for the 'kfail' command.


Thanks,
Jan


[...]
> +# at this point we expect to have main, fib, ..., fib, main, where fib occurs 8 times,
> +# so we limit the output to only show the latest 10 function calls
> +gdb_test_no_output "set record function-call-history-size 10"
> +set message "show recursive function call history"
> +gdb_test_multiple "record function-call-history" $message {
> +    -re "13	 main\r\n14	 fib\r\n15	 fib\r\n16	 fib\r\n17	 fib\r\n18	 fib\r\n19	 fib\r\n20	 fib\r\n21	 fib\r\n22	 main\r\n$gdb_prompt " {
> +        pass $message
> +    }
> +    -re "13	 inc\r\n14	 main\r\n15	 inc\r\n16	 main\r\n17	 inc\r\n18	 main\r\n19	 inc\r\n20	 main\r\n21	 fib\r\n22	 main\r\n$gdb_prompt " {
> +        # recursive function calls appear only as 1 call
> +        xfail $message
> +    }
> +}