On 6 April 2016 at 17:24, Pedro Alves <pal...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 04/06/2016 04:13 PM, Yvan Roux wrote: >> On 6 April 2016 at 17:09, Pedro Alves <pal...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> On 04/06/2016 03:53 PM, Yvan Roux wrote: >>>> Dejagnu cleanup mechanism needs to be enhanced, but I think that it >>>> would also be better if guality tests don't get stuck and/or can be >>>> killed easily. This patch changes GDB signals handling to nostop for >>>> SIGSEGV, SIGINT, SIGTERM and SIGBUS. I am not sure if we need to >>>> increase the list of signals to all the stop ones (which are not used >>>> by GDB) or to restrict it just to SIGSEGV. >>> >>> I'd suggest: >>> >>> handle all pass nostop >>> handle SIGINT pass nostop >>> >>> That would make gdb pass _all_ signals except SIGTRAP >> >> I've committed it already :/ >> >> I can make the change, but isn't there cases where SIGILL is used for >> breakpoints in GDB (I think I've seen that somewhere). > > True, and SIGSEGV and SIGEMT too. But GDB handles that transparently > and won't pass such a breakpoint signal to the program, even with > "handle pass". Only "handle SIGTRAP pass" passes a > breakpoint/step/etc. trap to the program.
Ah ok, thanks for the explanations Pedro, I'll prepare a new patch and validate it. Cheers, Yvan
