gdb.base/sigstep.exp: cleanup and make it easier to extend
Hacking on sigstep.exp, I found it harder to understand and extend
than ideal.
- GDB is currently not restarted between the different
tests/combinations in the file, and some parts of the tests' setup
are done on the top level, and shared between tests. It's not
trivial to understand which breakpoints each test procedure expects
to be set or not set. And it's not trivial to disable parts of the
test if you want quickly try out just a subset of the tests
(running the whole file takes a bit).
- Because GDB is currently not restarted between tests, if some test
triggers a ptrace/kernel bug, the following tests may end up with
cascading fails. That makes it hard to add a test to cover a
kernel bug that isn't fixed yet, with a xfail/kfail. E.g,. note
how with kernels with bug gdb/8744 (stepi over sigreturn syscall
exits program) the test program exits, and nothing restarts it
afterwards...
- The manual test message prefix management gets a bit in the way.
Nowadays, we have with_test_prefix which makes it simpler.
- 'i' is used as parameter name in the various procedures, meaning
'the command the test', which isn't as obvious as it could.
This commit addresses all that.
gdb/testsuite/
2014-10-28 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* gdb.base/sigstep.exp: Use build_executable instead of
prepare_for_testing.
(top level): Move code that starts GDB, runs to main and creates a
display to ...
(restart): ... this new procedure.
(top level): Move backtrace from signal handler test to ...
(validate_backtrace): ... this new procedure.
(advance, advancei): Rename parameter from 'i' to 'cmd'. Use
with_test_prefix. Always restart GDB.
(skip_to_handler): Rename parameter from 'i' to 'cmd'. Use
with_test_prefix. Always restart GDB. No need to delete
breakpoints after the test.
(test_skip_handler): Remove prefix parameter.
(skip_over_handler, breakpoint_to_handler)
(breakpoint_to_handler_entry, breakpoint_over_handler): Rename
parameter from 'i' to 'cmd'. Use with_test_prefix. Always
restart GDB. No need to delete breakpoints after the test.
(top level): Use foreach to call the test procedures with
different commands.
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