[RFC][gdb/testsuite] Ignore pass in gdb_caching_proc

[Tom de Vries <tdevries at suse dot de>]

[ was : Re: [committed][gdb/testsuite] Handle missing gnatmake in
gnat_runtime_has_debug_info ]

On 18-02-2020 10:39, Tom de Vries wrote:
> FWIW, I scanned a bit other gdb_caching_procs and there seems to be an
> idiom to handle hitting the default case of an expect using a warning,
> f.i. in skip_aarch64_sve_tests:
> ...
>         default {
>           warning "\n$me: default case taken"
>             set skip_sve_tests 1
>         }
> ...
> So we could use that at least for the last fail.
> 
> Also, here and there verbose seems to be used instead of fail.
> 
> The gdb_caching_procs seem to avoid explicitly calling pass and fail,
> but usage of gdb_test_multiple does happen a couple of time, which might
> result in fails etc (but then again, that might not have been
> intentional, I'm not sure).
> 
> In any case, we could either:
> - forbid calling pass in gdb_caching_proc, or
> - more accommodatingly, ignore pass in gdb_caching_proc.
> Both by renaming pass in gdb_do_cache.
> 
> Likewise, we could perhaps redirect fails to warnings.

This RFC patch implements "ignore pass in gdb_caching_proc".

Any comments?

Thanks,
- Tom

[gdb/testsuite] Ignore pass in gdb_caching_proc

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog:

2020-02-18  Tom de Vries  <tdevries@suse.de>

	* lib/cache.exp (ignore_pass, gdb_do_cache_wrap): New proc.
	(gdb_do_cache): Use gdb_do_cache_wrap.
	* gdb.base/gdb-caching-proc.exp (test_proc): Use gdb_do_cache_wrap.

---
 gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdb-caching-proc.exp |  4 ++--
 gdb/testsuite/lib/cache.exp                 | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdb-caching-proc.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdb-caching-proc.exp
index b2d71a5e7d..3810347a65 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdb-caching-proc.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/gdb-caching-proc.exp
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ proc test_proc { name } {
 
     set resultlist [list]
 
-    set first [$real_name]
+    set first [gdb_do_cache_wrap $real_name]
     lappend resultlist $first
 
     # Ten repetitions was enough to trigger target_supports_scheduler_locking,
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ proc test_proc { name } {
 
     set racy 0
     for {set i 0} {$i < $repeat} {incr i} {
-	set rerun [$real_name]
+	set rerun [gdb_do_cache_wrap $real_name]
 	lappend resultlist $rerun
 	if { $rerun != $first } {
 	    set racy 1
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/cache.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/cache.exp
index dc57cab964..357d232ae3 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/cache.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/cache.exp
@@ -17,6 +17,33 @@
 # The in-memory cache.
 array set gdb_data_cache {}
 
+proc ignore_pass { msg } {
+    verbose -log "gdb_do_cache_wrap ignoring pass: $msg"
+}
+
+proc gdb_do_cache_wrap {real_name} {
+    if { [info procs save_pass] != "" } {
+	return [uplevel 2 $real_name]
+    }
+
+    rename pass save_pass
+    rename ignore_pass pass
+
+    set code [catch {uplevel 2 $real_name} result]
+
+    rename pass ignore_pass
+    rename save_pass pass
+
+    if {$code == 1} {
+	global errorInfo errorCode
+	return -code error -errorinfo $errorInfo -errorcode $errorCode $result
+    } elseif {$code > 1} {
+	return -code $code $result
+    }
+
+    return $result
+}
+
 # A helper for gdb_caching_proc that handles the caching.
 
 proc gdb_do_cache {name} {
@@ -46,7 +73,7 @@ proc gdb_do_cache {name} {
     }
 
     set real_name gdb_real__$name
-    set gdb_data_cache($cache_name) [uplevel 1 $real_name]
+    set gdb_data_cache($cache_name) [gdb_do_cache_wrap $real_name]
 
     if {[info exists GDB_PARALLEL]} {
 	verbose "$name: returning '$gdb_data_cache($cache_name)' and writing file" 2