[PATCH] Testsuite: Remove pie from trace tests

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Wed Apr 24 19:23:00 GMT 2019


>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Hayward <Alan.Hayward@arm.com> writes:

Alan> Ubuntu/Debian defaults PIE to enabled.  This causes the trace tests
Alan> to fall over due to variables being returned as "unavailable".  The
Alan> tests were never designed to work with pie.

This seems strange to me -- I would not expect PIE to affect the trace
functionality.  I think it would be better to understand exactly why
this is happening.  Maybe the answer would still be to disable the
tests, but if so then we could have a reason attached to it.

Tom



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