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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:56:00 -0000
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
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        gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: RFA: patch to fix gdb/1680
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>>Try "{}" instead of {""}.  In these sorts of situtations that works a
>>> lot better.
> 
> 
> which is the missing bit of my suggestion.  { and \{ are the same thing
> when written in double quotes.  So (since we can't use {} here, because
> there is a variable substitution inside gdb_test's argument), use two
> backslashes.  That way one will reach the regex engine.

(two many quote characters).  Use ``{ ... }'' instead of ``" ... "'' 
when wrapping things up, it avoids the entire quoting et.al. problem.

Andrew