Hi!

A long long time ago, I submitted a TUI testsuite for the validation
of the gdb TUI:

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2003-08/msg00166.html

Andrew approved the integration of such testsuite:

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2003-08/msg00300.html

But... it was never integrated (:- (this is my fault; I guess it was because
the testsuite had few problems; a thread in Jan 2004 mention this; unless
I was disturbed by the birth of my son; ...).

This new TUI testsuite is seriously improved:
 - it contains new tests for tui specific commands
   like the 'layout' commands and few others (tui-commands.exp)

 - I've defined specific tests for tui register window
   and the 'tui reg' command (tui-regs.exp).
   This testsuite may be tuned for a specific target by
   specifying a list of register names, for example:

    "i[3456]86-*-*" {
	set registers "eax,ebx,ecx,edx"
    }

   This is optional.  When defined, the testsuite verifies that
   the named register appears in the 'tui reg general' curses window.

 - the testsuite is more reliable than it was (few patterns had
   problems and failures could occur sometimes)

I've validated this testsuite on the following targets:

  i686-pc-linux-gnu
  m6811-elf

Here are the results for Linux:

runtest gdb.tui/*.exp
Test Run By ciceron on Sat Nov 12 17:23:14 2005
Native configuration is i686-pc-linux-gnu

                === gdb tests ===

Schedule of variations:
    unix

Running target unix
Using /usr/local/share/dejagnu/baseboards/unix.exp as board description file for
target.
Using /usr/local/share/dejagnu/config/unix.exp as generic interface file for target.
Using ../.././gdb/testsuite/config/unix.exp as tool-and-target-specific
interface file.
Running ../.././gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/tui-commands.exp ...
Running ../.././gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/tui-single-key.exp ...
Running ../.././gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/tui-regs.exp ...
Running ../.././gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/tui-mode.exp ...
Running ../.././gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/tui-break.exp ...

                === gdb Summary ===

# of expected passes            120
/archives/build/gdb-6_4-i386/gdb/testsuite/../../gdb/gdb version
6.3.90-20051111-cvs -nx


Can you approve this patch for the mainline?

Stephane


2005-11-12  Stephane Carrez  <stcarrez@nerim.fr>

	* lib/tui-support.exp: New file for TUI testsuite.
	* gdb.tui/break.c: New file (from gdb.base/break.c)
	* gdb.tui/Makefile.in: New file for TUI testsuite.
	* gdb.tui/tui-commands.exp: New test for TUI specific commands.
	* gdb.tui/tui-break.exp: New test for TUI debugging.
	* gdb.tui/tui-regs.exp: New test for TUI register window and commands
	* gdb.tui/tui-mode.exp: New test for entering/leaving TUI mode.
	* gdb.tui/tui-single-key.exp: New test for TUI SingleKey mode.