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-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/testsuite/lib/gdb.exp34
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]