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[v2,testsuite] skip tests in with_target_charset if no ICONV support

Message ID 568F201F.1050802@codesourcery.com
State New, archived
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Sandra Loosemore Jan. 8, 2016, 2:34 a.m. UTC 
  On 09/16/2015 10:19 PM, Doug Evans wrote:
> Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com> writes:
>> If GDB is configured without ICONV support, it only knows about the
>> charset "ISO-8859-1".  Tests that use with_target_charset with some
>> other character set (e.g., gdb.base/printcmds.exp) presumably depend
>> on exactly that character set being supported and can't be expected to
>> work properly in its absence.  This patch makes with_target_charset
>> skip those tests as unsupported if switching to the specified
>> character set fails.  OK to commit?
>
> The return value of with_target_charset is not well defined.
> It's never used AFAICT (modulo the case where there's a tcl error).
>
>      if {$code == 1} {
> 	global errorInfo errorCode
> 	return -code $code -errorinfo $errorInfo -errorcode $errorCode $result
>      } else {
> 	return -code $code $result
>      }
>
> $ grep with_target_charset */*.exp
> gdb.base/printcmds.exp:    with_target_charset "ASCII" {
> gdb.base/printcmds.exp:    with_target_charset "ASCII" {
> gdb.base/printcmds.exp:    with_target_charset "ASCII" {
> gdb.base/setvar.exp:with_target_charset "ASCII" {
> gdb.base/setvar.exp:with_target_charset "ASCII" {
> gdb.base/setvar.exp:with_target_charset "ASCII" {
> lib/gdb.exp:proc with_target_charset { target_charset body } {
>
> I just wonder whether "return -1" is correct.
> Can we document that the function is "void" and don't return
> anything (except in the case of a tcl error: code == 1)?

I've revised the patch to do that.  Is the attached version OK to 
commit?  There were no other comments on the original post.

-Sandra
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index 015e202..f746388 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -2028,6 +2028,7 @@  proc with_gdb_prompt { prompt body } {
 
 # Run tests in BODY with target-charset setting to TARGET_CHARSET.  When
 # BODY is finished, restore target-charset.
+# Returns 1 in case of a TCL error and void otherwise.
 
 proc with_target_charset { target_charset body } {
     global gdb_prompt
@@ -2045,7 +2046,17 @@  proc with_target_charset { target_charset body } {
 	}
     }
 
-    gdb_test_no_output "set target-charset $target_charset" ""
+    # Setting the charset may fail if GDB was configured without
+    # ICONV support.
+    gdb_test_multiple "set target-charset $target_charset" "" {
+	-re "Undefined item.*$gdb_prompt " {
+	    unsupported "Unknown charset $target_charset"
+	    return
+	}
+	-re ".*$gdb_prompt " {
+	    pass "set target-charset $target_charset"
+	}
+    }
 
     set code [catch {uplevel 1 $body} result]