* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_gnu_strip_debug): Remove debug format test.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 34 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
index 9c0f505..1574c3a 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-12-09  Pedro Alves  <pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt>
+
+	* lib/gdb.exp (gdb_gnu_strip_debug): Remove debug format test.
+
 2007-11-30  Daniel Jacobowitz  <dan@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* gdb.server/file-transfer.exp, gdb.server/transfer.txt,
diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
index edbc606..038f51a 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp
@@ -2520,40 +2520,6 @@ proc build_id_debug_filename_get { exec } {
 
 proc gdb_gnu_strip_debug { dest args } {
 
-    # First, make sure that we can do this.  This is nasty. We need to
-    # check for the stabs debug format.  To do this we must run gdb on
-    # the unstripped executable, list 'main' (as to have a default
-    # source file), use get_debug_format (which does 'info source')
-    # and then see if the debug info is stabs. If so, we bail out.  We
-    # cannot do this any other way because get_debug_format finds out
-    # the debug format using gdb itself, and in case of stabs we get
-    # an error loading the program if it is already stripped.  An
-    # alternative would be to find out the debug info from the flags
-    # passed to dejagnu when the test is run.
-
-    gdb_exit
-    gdb_start
-    gdb_load ${dest}
-    gdb_test "list main" "" ""
-    get_debug_format
-    if { [test_debug_format "stabs"] } then {
-	# The separate debug info feature doesn't work well in
-	# binutils with stabs.  It produces a corrupted debug info
-	# only file, and gdb chokes on it.  It is almost impossible to
-	# capture the failing message out of gdb, because it happens
-	# inside gdb_load. At that point any error message is
-	# intercepted by dejagnu itself, and, because of the error
-	# threshold, any faulty test result is changed into an
-	# UNRESOLVED.  (see dejagnu/lib/framework.exp)
-	unsupported "no separate debug info handling with stabs"
-	return -1
-    } elseif { [test_debug_format "unknown"] } then {
-	# gdb doesn't know what the debug format is. We are out of luck here. 
-	unsupported "unknown debugging format"
-	return -1
-    }
-    gdb_exit
-
     set debug_file [separate_debug_filename $dest]
     set strip_to_file_program [transform strip]
     set objcopy_program [transform objcopy]