On Monday, December 01 2014, Luis Machado wrote:
This test assumes the typeid symbols are always available before
actually starting the inferior, which is not true for architectures
that place such symbols under relocatable sections.
The following patch fixes this by conditionalizing the execution of
such tests on the accessibility of the typeid symbols before the
inferior is running.
Regression-tested on ppc32/64.
Hey Luis!
Thanks for the patch. Just a somewhat minor comment.
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/typeid.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/typeid.exp
index 9963a8a..7469b2b 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/typeid.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.cp/typeid.exp
@@ -25,20 +25,35 @@ if {[prepare_for_testing $testfile.exp $testfile $srcfile {debug c++}]} {
proc do_typeid_tests {started} {
global hex
+ global gdb_prompt
+ set symbol_found 1
- # We might see the standard type or gdb's internal type.
- set type_re "(std::type_info|struct gdb_gnu_v3_type_info)"
+ # Try to access one of the symbols to make sure it is available. Some
+ # architectures put the symbols on relocatable sections, which means
+ # they will not be accessible before the inferior is running.
+ send_gdb "print 'typeinfo for int'\n"
+ gdb_expect {
+ -re "No symbol \"typeinfo for int\" in current context.*$gdb_prompt" {
+ set symbol_found 0
+ }
+ -re ".*$gdb_prompt" {
+ }
+ }
Any particular reason for not using gdb_test_multiple here (and
everywhere else)? This "send_gdb...gdb_expect" dialect is not used
anymore in the testsuite, AFAIR.