Stabs or Dwarf Was: [PATCH]: testsuite/gdb.base/constvars.exp

[Fernando Nasser]

Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
> >
> > Hi Stan,
> >
> > Thanks for your comments.
> >
> > Stan Shebs wrote:
> > >
> > > I can't think of a completely reliable test on binary files.  For
> > > instance, in original a.out, stabs are plain symbols, not in a
> > > distinctly-named section.  You also have the problem of an executable
> > > maybe having libraries compiled with stabs, and main prog with dwarf,
> > > and objdump can't distinguish.
> > >
> >
> > True.
> >
> > I was thinking just in terms of the testsuite.  Most test programs are
> > a single file.  Could we test just the object file for that one?
> >
> > Another idea: if we can't say t is stabs but we can say it is dwarf,
> > we could implement a gdb_is_dwarf instead.  Would that help?
> 
> The "info source" command will give you that information.
> Haven't tried it with AOUT, but it works with stabs/elf and
> dwarf/elf.  If we got a positive for dwarf we could run the test.

Thanks Michael.  That is really good news.

Please see my comments to Elena's message.


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