Re: [rfc] Re: Remote testsuite problem: invalid executable cache

Stan Shebs
2011-07-25T21:41:14Z

On 7/25/11 10:40 AM, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
>>> +mi_gdb_load ${binfile}-c++
>> Using the '+' character in filenames may not be the best idea.
> Is this really a problem? I thought '+' was supported just about
> everywhere ... (There's filenames containing '+' in the GDB source
> repository, for example.)

I would be inclined to avoid '+' myself, not because of the filesystem,
but because of potential tcl/dejagnu regexp hell. (Yes, it can be
worked around, but it gets annoying when 54 backslashes in a row is not
enough :-) )

Stan
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