Re: RFA: patch to fix gdb/1680

[mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)]

> Note, this duplication of the regexp engine is what I wrote about a 
> couple of weeks ago when removing expect first came up...

I found your message again after I posted mine ... now I feel dumb.
"Three months in the lab can often save thirty minutes in the library."

We're in pretty good shape with gdb because I've been using
stock TCL 8.4.6 + Expect 5.41 for a long time, years now.
So I've already swept the minefield, as it were.

> Finally, note that if you need to see the result regexp as it ACTUALLY 
> gets to dejagnu, pass the --debug flag in RUNTESTFLAGS, and it will 
> spit out a file named dbg.log in build/gdb/testsuite which shows among 
> much other stuff the actual regexp that dejagnu is trying to match.

Wow, I didn't know about that.  That will help me in the future.

Michael C