From 1af434cc022aaec09801b5a78bb1e6179b2a3f7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Albert Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:17:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add a hint about using --no-isolate for GDB. Change-Id: Ib9df5ed986a1c4082c9c7cd793a4d670be21ca66 --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 72b7124a7..37d3f622f 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -257,6 +257,17 @@ First, build and run the host tests as usual (see above). The coverage report is now available at `covreport/index.html`. +Attaching GDB to the tests +-------------------------- + +Bionic's test runner will run each test in its own process by default to prevent +tests failures from impacting other tests. This also has the added benefit of +running them in parallel, so they are much faster. + +However, this also makes it difficult to run the tests under GDB. To prevent +each test from being forked, run the tests with the flag `--no-isolate`. + + LP32 ABI bugs -------------