Re: [PATCH v2 07/11] tests/tcg: relax the next step precision of the gdb sha1 test

[Alex Bennée]

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes:

> On 4/1/21 3:25 AM, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>       check_break("SHA1Init")
>>   -    # check step and inspect values
>> +    # Check step and inspect values. We do a double next after the
>> +    # breakpoint as depending on the version of gdb we may step the
>> +    # preamble and not the first actual line of source.
>> +    gdb.execute("next")
>>       gdb.execute("next")
>>       val_ctx = gdb.parse_and_eval("context->state[0]")
>>       exp_ctx = 0x67452301
>
> This double next seems just as fragile.  Why don't you just set the
> breakpoint where you want, which appears to be sha1.c:138?

Ideally I'd want an unambiguous label that gdb would understand lest it
got broken by someone tweaking the sha1.c code. I thought a function
header would be better but it appears only marginally so. 

>
>
> r~


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Alex Bennée