tree d8c50b64abdaae648677fbbb5a47e5922d8e09ad
parent 067bb42419ddb9d5c3f755544d52277a03ce623f
author Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> 1745070077 +0100
committer Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> 1745338918 +0100

gdb/python: restructure the existing memory leak tests

We currently have two memory leak tests in gdb.python/ and there's a
lot of duplication between these two.

In the next commit I'd like to add yet another memory leak test, which
would mean a third set of scripts which duplicate the existing two.
And three is where I draw the line.

This commit factors out the core of the memory leak tests into a new
module gdb_leak_detector.py, which can then be imported by each
tests's Python file in order to make writing the memory leak tests
easier.

I've also added a helper function to lib/gdb-python.exp which captures
some of the common steps needed in the TCL file in order to run a
memory leak test.

Finally, I use this new infrastructure to rewrite the two existing
memory leak tests.

What I considered, but ultimately didn't do, is merge the two memory
leak tests into a single TCL script.  I did consider this, and for the
existing tests this would be possible, but future tests might require
different enough setup that this might not be possible for all future
tests, and now that we have helper functions in a central location,
the each individual test is actually pretty small now, so leaving them
separate seemed OK.

There should be no change in what is actually being tested after this
commit.

Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>