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

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 f2ef51f8bec525b21e52988880c8a029642795ed)

Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo <Pablogsal@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
index d49769e44edfb0a6d2858c66e22ac084a231a968..c45fd45735cdacc2125829623b6632470d628e8b 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_gdb.py
@@ -215,6 +215,15 @@ class DebuggerTests(unittest.TestCase):
         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)