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* RE: [PATCH, ping1] Add missing expect for running a program with CLI jump
@ 2015-12-18  9:52 Thomas Preud'homme
  2015-12-18 18:23 ` Joel Brobecker
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Preud'homme @ 2015-12-18  9:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: gdb-patches

[Reworded title to make the intent of this patch hopefully clearer]

Ping?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Preud'homme
> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2015 1:58 PM
> To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Subject: [PATCH] Add expect for when using CLI jump to run a cmd in
> testsuite
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, mi_run_cmd_full have no expect for the case where CLI jump
> is used to run a command. This cause subsequent expects to get
> occasionally confused at the output they receive, depending on the
> interleaving of the CLI jump and following commands. This makes
> tracking regressions in gdb more painful because of all the test results flip
> flop. This patch fixes the issue by adding the necessary expect.
> 
> ChangeLog entry is as follows:
> 
> 2015-10-15  Thomas Preud'homme  <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com>
> 
>         * lib/mi-support.exp (mi_run_cmd_full): Add an expect for the CLI
> jump
>         case.
> 
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/lib/mi-support.exp b/gdb/testsuite/lib/mi-
> support.exp
> index 0d17ecb..cc055f6 100644
> --- a/gdb/testsuite/lib/mi-support.exp
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/lib/mi-support.exp
> @@ -886,6 +886,9 @@ proc mi_run_cmd_full {use_mi_command args} {
>  	# to better handle RUN.
>  	send_gdb  "jump *$start\n"
>  	warning "Using CLI jump command, expect run-to-main FAIL"
> +	gdb_expect {
> +	    -re "${run_match}&\"jump
> \\*${start}\\n\"\[\r\n\]+~\"Continuing at 0x\[0-9A-Fa-
> f\]+\\n.\"\[\r\n\]+\^running\[\r\n\]+\\*running,thread-
> id=\"\[^\"\]+\"\r\n${mi_gdb_prompt}" {}
> +	}
>  	return 0
>      }
> 
> 
> With this patch applied, testsuite results become much more stable.
> 
> Is this ok for the master branch?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Thomas
> 



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