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Re: [PATCH] Check tracefile is generated by binary execution
- From: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- To: <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 10:23:47 +0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Check tracefile is generated by binary execution
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On 03/25/2014 03:52 PM, Yao Qi wrote:
> In gdb.trace/tfile.exp, we execute binary to generate tracefile,
>
> remote_exec target "$binfile"
>
> however, this fails on bare metal target. This patch is to
> handle binary execution failure by running binary in GDB.
> The binary will do some io operation to generate tracefile, so
> we need a check 'target_info exists gdb,nofileio'.
>
> This patch is to check whether tracefile is generated. tfile.exp can
> be skipped if generation is failed, while test_tfind_tfile in
> mi-traceframe-changed.exp is skipped if generated failed. The rest of
> the mi-traceframe-changed.exp can still be executed, because on some
> bare metal targets, the remote stub may support tracepoint but doesn't
> support fileio.
>
> This patch is tested on nios2-elf and arm-none-eabi.
>
> gdb/testsuite:
>
> 2014-03-25 Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
>
> * lib/trace-support.exp (generate_tracefile): New procedure.
> * gdb.trace/tfile.exp: Skip the test if generate_tracefile
> return 0.
> * gdb.trace/mi-traceframe-changed.exp: Invoke test_tfind_tfile
> if generate_tracefile returns 1.
Ping. https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-03/msg00591.html
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