[Bug translator/17906] The test to restrict nearest probes to ABSOLUTE and RELATIVE causing unprivileged_probes.exp tests with wildcards to fail

[jlebon at redhat dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17906

Jonathan Lebon <jlebon at redhat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Jonathan Lebon <jlebon at redhat dot com> ---
Hey Will,

Thanks for reporting this, looks like I didn't catch it when I made the change.
If I remember correctly, the reasoning was that it didn't make sense to have
wildcards with .nearest. E.g. .statement("foo@file.c:15").nearest and
.statement("foo@file.c+3").nearest have clear meanings (use the nearest
probe-able addrs to these linenos).

On the other hand, with .statement("foo@file.c:*").nearest, since "*" already
means "expand to all possible probe-able linenos", adding a .nearest makes no
difference since they will all already be valid linenos. In that sense, I guess
we could allow the syntax without really changing behaviour. At the time, I
leaned on the stricter interpretation of "this is redundant so the user
probably meant something else".

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