From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>,
gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] add missing gdb_test arguments in paginate-bg-execution.exp
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151221122750.GB5564@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5677E835.4090603@redhat.com>
> If it wasn't supposed to be correct, then it'd be good to add
> an "error" call in gdb_test, to make it a hard error.
>
> But I think it is supposed to work. At least
>
> $ grep -rn "gdb_test " | grep -v "\".*\".*\"" | grep -v "\\\\"
>
> shows many (hundreds) of instances. With no explicit pattern,
> we end up just matching the prompt, ignoring whatever output
> precedes it.
Yes, I confirm it is supposed to work, or at least it's been
acknowledged to be that way for quite a while. The last time
we discussed it is when we created gdb_test_no_output.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-21 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-18 19:23 [patch 0/3] fix some gdb.base/paginate-bg-execution.exp problems Sandra Loosemore
2015-12-18 19:31 ` [patch 1/3] make prompt_for_continue call throw_quit directly Sandra Loosemore
2015-12-18 19:34 ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-18 19:44 ` [patch 2/3] reset pagination counts even when stdin is not a tty Sandra Loosemore
2015-12-18 20:17 ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-18 19:50 ` [patch 3/3] add missing gdb_test arguments in paginate-bg-execution.exp Sandra Loosemore
2015-12-18 20:40 ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-18 23:49 ` Sandra Loosemore
2015-12-21 11:53 ` Pedro Alves
2015-12-21 12:27 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2015-12-25 19:39 ` Sandra Loosemore
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