[patch] New thread test to exercise Daniel's Patch
Jeff Johnston
jjohnstn@redhat.com
Mon Mar 29 18:06:00 GMT 2004
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 04:13:18PM -0500, Jeff Johnston wrote:
>
>>See the attached test. There was some stuff in pthreads.exp about Crtl-C
>>and alpha-*-osf*. Do I need to account for this platform?
>
>
> Well, it's still supported, but I have no idea whether the bit in that
> test is necessary - or what it's supposed to accomplish. So let's
> ignore it.
>
>
>>+# This only works with native configurations
>>+if ![isnative] then {
>>+ return
>>+}
>
>
> This shouldn't be necessary.
>
Ok.
>
>>+set testfile "manythreads"
>>+set srcfile ${testfile}.c
>>+set binfile ${objdir}/${subdir}/${testfile}
>>+if {[gdb_compile "${srcdir}/${subdir}/${srcfile}" "${binfile}" executable {debug libs=-lpthread}] != ""} {
>
>
> See gdb_compile_pthreads.
>
Will do.
>
>>+send_gdb "set print sevenbit-strings\n" ; gdb_expect -re "$gdb_prompt $"
>
>
> gdb_test "set print sevenbit-strings" ""
>
Ok.
>
>>+send_gdb "continue\n"
>>+gdb_expect {
>
>
> Everywhere you're using gdb_expect, please use gdb_test_multiple
> instead. For the "after" tests, you can use gdb_test_multiple with
> "" as the first argument.
>
I tried this initially but I kept getting "Error: internal buffer is full". I
tried lowering the "after" time which is why it ended up 100 below but that
didn't solve the problem. Any suggestions on how to avoid the "full_buffer" error.
>
>>+# Send a Ctrl-C and verify that we can do info threads and continue
>>+after 100 {send_gdb "\003"}
>
>
> Is 100 ms enough to be interesting?
>
It still kicks off a fair number of threads that have started/exited, but I can
make this bigger.
-- Jeff J.
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