gdbserver: misc fixes (#214909 c 77)
Fix some tests on ppc-debian6,s390x + handled Nick Nethercote, Josef
Weidendorfer comments
* improved testing & related doc
- added option --vex-iropt-precise-memory-exns=yes to mcsig(no)pass.vgtest
+ updated manual-core.xml
- cleanup some comments in *.vgtest
- modified filter_gdb and filter_memcheck_monitor to
handle specific ppc/debian6.0 mcsig(no)pass output
handle specific s390x 'missing debug info'
- added more information in README_DEVELOPPERS on how to
investigate failing gdbserver tests.
* handled Nick Nethercote comment:
Replaced kludgy ms.snapshot detailed
by ms.detailed_snaphot
Updated documentation and test.
* handled Josef Weindendorfer comments:
- do not report an error if ptrace_scope file can't be read.
Instead, a debug trace is done if -d (debug) option given
- added an option -l to give the list of active Valgrind
gdbserver. Useful a.o. to support callgrind_control.
Updated documentation
- added ref. to vgdb help in the vgdb --help message
(Philippe Waroquiers, philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be)
git-svn-id: svn://svn.valgrind.org/valgrind/trunk@11770 a5019735-40e9-0310-863c-91ae7b9d1cf9
diff --git a/gdbserver_tests/mcinfcallWSRU.vgtest b/gdbserver_tests/mcinfcallWSRU.vgtest
index 1b19cc7..0bb4b6a 100644
--- a/gdbserver_tests/mcinfcallWSRU.vgtest
+++ b/gdbserver_tests/mcinfcallWSRU.vgtest
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
vgopts: --tool=memcheck --vgdb=yes --vgdb-error=0 --vgdb-prefix=./vgdb-prefix-mcinfcallWSRU
# Disable on Darwin: inferior call rejected as it cannot find malloc.
prereq: test -e gdb && ../tests/os_test linux
-# filter_gdb to replace pid and Thread numbers.
+# filter_gdb to replace pid and Thread numbers in the output of the program:
stderr_filter: filter_gdb
progB: gdb
argsB: --quiet -l 60 --nx 1>&2 ./sleepers