Re: GDB on AIX

[David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

You can see the history of the builder

http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/AIX-POWER8-plain

- David


On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David and Sergio,
>
> GDB mainline is broken on aix (gcc119.fsffrance.org),
>
> $ ./gdb
> GNU gdb (GDB) 7.12.50.20161114-git
> Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
> and "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "powerpc-ibm-aix7.2.0.0".
> Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
> For bug reporting instructions, please see:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>.
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> (gdb) kill
> terminate called after throwing an instance of 'gdb_exception_RETURN_MASK_ERROR'
> IOT/Abort trap (core dumped)
>
> Although we have an aix buildslave on this machine,
> I don't think anyone checked the test result carefully.
> Here is the first build on this buildslave (on Aug)
> http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/builders/AIX-POWER8-plain/builds/1/steps/regressions/logs/stdio
> There are a lot of "UNRESOLVED" and "ERROR", and
> summary looks wrong as well, which has only 2330 passes,
> but 8323 unresolved.
>
> === gdb Summary ===
>
> # of expected passes 2330
> # of unexpected failures 78
> # of expected failures 7
> # of known failures 1
> # of untested testcases 134
> # of unresolved testcases 8323
> # of unsupported tests 178
>
> I think Pedro fixed this issue
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2016-04/msg00504.html before,
> but I only verified the fix on native arm-linux on reviewing Pedro's fix.
> I am not sure it is related to aix 7.1 -> aix 7.2 change.
>
> --
> Yao (齐尧)