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authorTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2023-07-28 06:25:11 -0600
committerTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2023-07-31 08:22:45 -0600
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Set PYTHONMALLOC in the test suite
Setting PYTHONMALLOC helped me locate an earlier bug. It seems to me that there aren't big downsides to always setting this during testing, and it might help find other bugs in the future.
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
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@@ -6437,6 +6437,10 @@ proc default_gdb_init { test_file_name } {
# tests.
setenv TERM "dumb"
+ # This setting helps detect bugs in the Python code and doesn't
+ # seem to have a significant downside for the tests.
+ setenv PYTHONMALLOC malloc_debug
+
# If DEBUGINFOD_URLS is set, gdb will try to download sources and
# debug info for f.i. system libraries. Prevent this.
if { [is_remote host] } {