Re: [resubmit] gdb.base, r*.exp thru w*.exp

[Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>]

> Well, this is a very common and ancient idiom that is used
> everywhere throughout the test suite.
> 
> You have to assume that we don't care about anything between
> the ".*" and the "$gdb_prompt $".  If we do, the test is wrong,
> but if it consumes more output than it was meant to, the
> following tests will fail.

To give more context about the whole effort, I have to say that this was
one psychologically tough patch to review, because there are lots of
little things that I would have wanted to improve. But Pedro is right
that we should limit ourselves to semi-mechanical changes and not get
carried away by trying to make things perfect.  If the original test was
already erroneous, we can fix that as a followup patch.  That could be
another mechanical patch...

-- 
Joel