am 13997591: Merge "Add a hint about using --no-isolate for GDB."

* commit '1399759118f50071d499f88b18828e36aa2bad00':
  Add a hint about using --no-isolate for GDB.
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Dan Albert 2015-09-19 19:52:23 +00:00 committed by Android Git Automerger
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@ -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
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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
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