bpo-34007: Skip traceback tests if the Program Counter is not available. (GH-9018)

miss-islington · pablogsal · web-flow · commit 4da71814b327 · 2018-08-31T18:47:20.000-04:00
Sometimes some versions of the shared libraries that are part of the traceback are compiled in optimised mode and the Program Counter (PC) is not present, not allowing gdb to walk the frames back. When this happens, the Python bindings of gdb raise an exception, making the test impossible to succeed. (cherry picked from commit f2ef51f) Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
@@ -206,6 +206,15 @@ def get_stack_trace(self, source=None, script=None,
         for line in errlines:
             if not line:
                 continue
+            # bpo34007: Sometimes some versions of the shared libraries that
+            # are part of the traceback are compiled in optimised mode and the
+            # Program Counter (PC) is not present, not allowing gdb to walk the
+            # frames back. When this happens, the Python bindings of gdb raise
+            # an exception, making the test impossible to succeed.
+            if "PC not saved" in line:
+                raise unittest.SkipTest("gdb cannot walk the frame object"
+                                        " because the Program Counter is"
+                                        " not present")
             if not line.startswith(ignore_patterns):
                 unexpected_errlines.append(line)
 
