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Re: [PATCH] PPC atomic single stepping testcase
- From: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand at de dot ibm dot com>
- To: luisgpm at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 00:16:46 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC atomic single stepping testcase
Luis Machado wrote:
> +gdb_test "x/g &puts" "$hex <puts>:\[\t\]+$hex" \
> + "Get the address of the puts function"
> +
> +gdb_breakpoint "*(\$__ + 88)" "Breakpoint $decimal at $hex" \
> + "Set the breakpoint at the start of the sequence"
This appears to make quite a lot of assumptions about
glibc implementation details. I'd except just about
any glibc update to break this test ...
As this is a PowerPC-specific case anyway, can you not
use a test that explicitly has the atomic sequence in
the code provided with the test case?
Bye,
Ulrich
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Dr. Ulrich Weigand
GNU Toolchain for Linux on System z and Cell BE
Ulrich.Weigand@de.ibm.com