Re: PATCH: tests for MI commands

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

 > > I never intended to leave things broken.  You have asked me to fix the
 > > failures, and I will, but I'm not sure if that means submit further
 > > patches to the mailing list or commit appropriate fixes.  Based on Mark
 > > Kettenis' e-mail,
 > 
 > Submit patches, please.

OK.

 > > I attach a simple fix for mi-var-child.exp.  Does it work in your case?  I
 > 
 > > 2005-07-28  Nick Roberts  <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
 > > 
 > > 	* gdb.mi/mi-var-child.exp: Allow struct_declarations.character to be
 > > 	uninitialized.
 > 
 > First of all, it won't work.  You added:
 >   value=\"0 '\\\\\\\\$decimal'\"
 > which still has 0 in it :-)

Oops!

 > Second, I get a value of 0 here, but the test still fails. 
 > func_ptr_struct and func_ptr_ptr aren't initialized either.  Chasing
 > uninitialized members is going to leave the tests script a bit of a
 > mess.
 > 
 > Initializing the whole structure proved to be a bit of a pain - these
 > tests are ridiculously tricky to edit.  But here it is.  Tested on
 > i686-pc-linux-gnu and committed.  I hope this will be more useful if we
 > add any additional value-related tests.

I find the number of backslashes needed confusing (because of the read syntax
for strings?).  Your changes seem concise.  I'll test these too.
 
Thanks again.

Nick