>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz writes: Daniel> I don't know how facile you are with expect, but could you Daniel> either write a full testcase or at least give me a small Daniel> sample code and session transcript to reduce the problem, so Daniel> that this can go into the testsuite? I know next to nothing about expect, and from a quick look at some testsuite files it would take me some time to construct a proper testcase file. Attached are a test program and a before and after log of a session that shows the issue with awatch. The test run was on RedHat 8.0 linux, gdb 5.3 native. paul