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authorJoel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>2015-08-12 13:40:54 -0700
committerJoel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>2015-08-13 11:16:24 -0700
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gdb.base/dso2dso.exp: Improve testcase documentation.
gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.base/dso2dso.exp: Improve the testcase's documentation.
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diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/dso2dso.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/dso2dso.exp
index e11606c..9dc92d2 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/dso2dso.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/dso2dso.exp
@@ -13,6 +13,16 @@
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# The purpose of this testcase is to verify that we can "next" over
+# a call to a function provided by one shared library made from another
+# shared library, and that GDB stops at the expected location. In this
+# case, the call is made from sub1 (provided by libdso1) and we are
+# calling sub2 (provided by libdso2).
+#
+# Note that, while this is not the main purpose of this testcase, it
+# also happens to exercise an issue with displaced stepping on amd64
+# when libdso1 is mapped at an address greater than 0xffffffff.
+
if { [skip_shlib_tests] } {
return 0
}
@@ -53,10 +63,6 @@ if { ![runto_main] } {
return -1
}
-# Verify that we can "next" over the call to sub2 (provided by
-# libdso2) make from sub1 (provided by libdso1), and land at
-# the expected location.
-
set bp_location [gdb_get_line_number "STOP HERE" [file tail $srcfile_libdso1]]
gdb_breakpoint ${srcfile_libdso1}:${bp_location}