[PING][PATCH v2 PR gdb/21870] aarch64: Leftover uncleared debug registers

[Wei-min Pan]

On 2/13/2019 3:40 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 02/12/2019 01:10 AM, Weimin Pan wrote:
>> +clean_restart $testfile
>> +
>> +set test "run to exit"
>> +gdb_test_multiple "run" "$test" {
>> +    -re "exited with code 01.*$gdb_prompt $" {
>> +        pass "$test"
>> +    }
>> +    -re "exited normally.*$gdb_prompt $" {
>> +        pass "$test"
>> +    }
>> +}
> A naked "run" command doesn't work when testing against
> gdbserver with --target_board=native-gdbserver.
>
> Is "run" important here?  Could this use runto_main + "continue" instead?

As long as the test run doesn't assert, we could instead use
"runto_main + "continue". Thanks for pointing this out.

> Also, the comment at the top of the file says:
>
>   # This test checks that GDB does not alter watchpoints set by an inferior.
>   # It sets a watchpoint on memory then writes to the watched memory.
>   # It will exit with 1 if the watchpoint is not reached.
>
> But I couldn't spot where that "exit with 1" happens in the .c file.

You are right, it should be "exit with 2".

> Also, when that happens, we're issuing a pass, as seen above.
> Is that intended?

"Exit with 1" could happen if the PTRACE_SETREGSET call should
fail which is ok as long as it doesn't cause assertion.

Thanks for your comments.

>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves