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[binutils-gdb] Fix gdbserver/MI testing regression


*** TEST RESULTS FOR COMMIT 038d48680941f014349256aeb7bab14b3f01d58e ***

Author: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Branch: master
Commit: 038d48680941f014349256aeb7bab14b3f01d58e

Fix gdbserver/MI testing regression

Commit 51f77c3704a6 ("Add testing infrastruture bits for running with
MI on a separate UI") broke MI testing with native-gdbserver:

 $ make check RUNTESTFLAGS="--target_board=native-gdbserver mi-var-child.exp"
	 ...
 Running .../src/binutils-gdb/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-var-child.exp ...
 can't unset "inferior_spawn_id": no such variable
     while executing
 "unset inferior_spawn_id"
     (procedure "close_gdbserver" line 20)
     invoked from within
 "close_gdbserver"
 ...

When testing with gdbserver, gdb_exit is overridden with a special
version that calls close_gdbserver, which clears inferior_spawn_id.
The problem is that the commit mentioned above made
gdb_exit/mi_gdb_exit clear inferior_spawn_id too, and clearing a
non-existing variable is a tcl error.

Since gdb_exit/mi_gdb_exit always clears inferior_spawn_id now, the
fix is simply to stop clearing it in close_gdbserver.

gdb/testsuite/
2016-06-30  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* lib/gdbserver-support.exp (close_gdbserver, gdb_exit): Don't
	unset inferior_spawn_id.


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