From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@cygnus.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quoting curly braces in call-rt-st
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 13:42:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010709134213.B31388@lucon.org>
References: <3B411440.1691E1E5@cygnus.com> <3B4A1622.20873CAD@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00208.html

On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:37:54PM -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> Michael Snyder wrote:
> > 
> > Using double-backslash to quote curly braces in regular expressions
> > seems so satisfy the largest subset of versions of expect.
> > 
> 
> If I understand right, Michael claims his double-backslashed version works with both incarnations of expect regexps.  So, we have a perfectly valid pattern which is more robust (works independently of the expect version).
> 
> I think we should make this change anyway.
> 

See

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-07/msg00034.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-09/msg00353.html


H.J.