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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2015-01-31 09:48:52 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2015-01-31 09:48:52 (GMT)
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Issue #22765: Fixed test_gdb failures. Supressed unexpected gdb output.
Patch by Bohuslav Kabrda.
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test')
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_gdb.py19
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
index 4fba3c3..2db9cd5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
@@ -123,6 +123,25 @@ class DebuggerTests(unittest.TestCase):
# Generate a list of commands in gdb's language:
commands = ['set breakpoint pending yes',
'break %s' % breakpoint,
+
+ # GDB as of 7.4 (?) onwards can distinguish between the
+ # value of a variable at entry vs current value:
+ # http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Variables.html
+ # which leads to the selftests failing with errors like this:
+ # AssertionError: 'v@entry=()' != '()'
+ # Disable this:
+ 'set print entry-values no',
+
+ # The tests assume that the first frame of printed
+ # backtrace will not contain program counter,
+ # that is however not guaranteed by gdb
+ # therefore we need to use 'set print address off' to
+ # make sure the counter is not there. For example:
+ # #0 in PyObject_Print ...
+ # is assumed, but sometimes this can be e.g.
+ # #0 0x00003fffb7dd1798 in PyObject_Print ...
+ 'set print address off',
+
'run']
if cmds_after_breakpoint:
commands += cmds_after_breakpoint