Re: [RFA] testsuite/gdb.base/bang.exp: Allow trailing text after "Program exited normally"

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:42:01PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> while testing I found that a test for ending the program in
>> gdb.base/bang.exp failed, even though the target had actually
>> exited normally.  The cause of the FAIL is that bang.exp doesn't
>> expect anything after the string "Program exited normally.".
>> On the sh target at least, the output after exiting contains a
>> bit more text:
>> 
>>   Program exited normally.
>>   [Switching to process 0] 
>> 
>> Since that trailing output after a normal exit doesn't change
>> anything with respect to the testresult, I propose to allow
>> trailing characters:
> 
> 
> But isn't the [Switching to process 0] a bug?  We aren't switching
> processes, the inferior is dead.

Yes.  The message is both a bug and a very long standing regression.

Andrew

PS: Suggest a reminder comment that SIGNALED is really "terminated with 
signal" :-)