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authorAnders Granlund <anders.granlund@ericsson.com>2015-01-22 14:33:04 -0500
committerSimon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>2015-01-22 15:49:08 -0500
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Introduce gdb_interact in testsuite
gdb_interact is a small utility that we have found quite useful to debug test cases. Putting gdb_interact in a test suspends it and allows to interact with gdb to inspect whatever you want. You can then type ">>>" to resume the test execution. Of course, this is only for gdb devs. It wouldn't make sense to leave a gdb_interact permanently in a test case. When starting the interaction with the user, the script prints this banner: +------------------------------------------+ | Script interrupted, you can now interact | | with by gdb. Type >>> to continue. | +------------------------------------------+ Notes: * When gdb is launched, the gdb_spawn_id variable (lib/gdb.exp) is assigned -1. Given the name, I would expect it to contain the gdb expect spawn id, which is needed for interact. I changed all places that set gdb_spawn_id to -1 to set it to the actual gdb spawn id instead. * When entering the "interact" mode, the last (gdb) prompt is already eaten by expect, so it doesn't show up on the terminal. Subsequent prompts do appear though. We tried to print "(gdb)" just before the interact to replace it. However, it could be misleading if you are debugging an MI test case, it makes you think that you are typing in a CLI prompt, when in reality it's MI. In the end I decided that since the feature is for developers who know what they're doing and that one is normally consciously using gdb_interact, the script doesn't need to babysit the user. * There are probably some quirks depending on where in the script gdb_interact appears (e.g. it could interfere with following commands and make them fail), but it works for most cases. Quirks can always be fixed later. The idea and original implementation was contributed by Anders Granlund, a colleague of mine. Thanks to him. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.base/statistics.exp: Assign spawn id to gdb_spawn_id. * gdb.base/valgrind-db-attach.exp: Same. * gdb.base/valgrind-infcall.exp: Same. * lib/mi-support.exp (default_mi_gdb_start): Same. * lib/prompt.exp (default_prompt_gdb_start): Same. * lib/gdb.exp (default_gdb_spawn): Same. (gdb_interact): New.
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/valgrind-db-attach.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/valgrind-db-attach.exp
index 3055d19c9fa..89db22c8eb9 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/valgrind-db-attach.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/valgrind-db-attach.exp
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ if { $res < 0 || $res == "" } {
}
pass $test
# Declare GDB now as running.
-set gdb_spawn_id -1
+set gdb_spawn_id $res
# GDB spawned by `valgrind --db-attach=yes' stops already after the startup is
# executed, like with non-extended gdbserver. It is also not correct to