Re: Mingw gdb validation

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:40:55AM +0200, Denis PILAT wrote:
> Is there any chance for such a patch to be accepted ?
> It allows the following test to be successful when using a MinGW gdb  
> (means a gdb compiled under MSYS environment or using  
> CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin" under cygwin).

That depends why it's necessary... we have been testing mingw GDB
binaries for at least a year, and I've never seen this failure.
Are you using a Cygwin expect binary to drive the GDB?

> If yes I will write a correct changelog entry.
> The following $nl value is the only one that works both on linux and  
> windows when running a validation.
>
>
> About  gdb.cp/userdef.exp, I don't understand why only in part of the  
> tests we have a \r\n expected as the answer ?
> gdb_test "print one % two" "\\\$\[0-9\]* = {x = 2, y = 3}"
> gdb_test "print one && two" "\\\$\[0-9\]* = 1\[\r\n\]"    <===== Why  
> expecting \r\n here  and not above ?

I don't know either, there it can probably be removed.  It was
probably to ensure that there wasn't another character after the 1,
but gdb_test already does that.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
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