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Re: [RFA] Don't try to run auxv tests in simulator
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 08:41:49 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:45:35AM -0400, Fred Fish wrote:
> > AFAIK all available simulators don't support auxv info, so trying to
> > run the auxv tests will fail. They also need corefile support.
> >
> > I see that corefile.exp has:
> >
> > # are we on a target board
> > if ![isnative] then {
> > return
> > }
> >
> > which may be too restrictive for auxv. So I'd propose suppressing the
> > auxv tests just for simulators, for now at least.
> >
> > 2006-05-11 Fred Fish <fnf@specifix.com>
> >
> > * gdb.base/auxv.exp: Simulators don't support auxv info
> > so don't run test if executing in a simulator.
>
> Simulatorness has nothing to do with it, though. Does anyone know if
> the BSDs use auxv, or is it entirely a GNU/Linux + Solaris thing?
GDB doesn't have any auxv support on OpenBSD. There is some minimal
auxv stuff in the kernel (just enough to implement stuff in the
official ELF ABI), but it isn't really interesting, and there is no
way for the debugger to get at it. I have no plans to implement it.
I think the situation is similar for the other BSDs.
Mark