From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23229 invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2008 10:28:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 23221 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Mar 2008 10:28:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtagate1.de.ibm.com (HELO mtagate1.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.150) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:28:09 +0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate1.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2JAS6sc125304 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:28:06 GMT Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m2JAS6iB1945644 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:06 +0100 Received: from d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m2JAS5Og009316 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:06 +0100 Received: from bbkeks.de.ibm.com (dyn-9-152-248-39.boeblingen.de.ibm.com [9.152.248.39]) by d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id m2JAS3Rw009239 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:28:05 +0100 Message-ID: <47E0EAB3.5080703@de.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:28:00 -0000 From: Markus Deuling User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: GDB Patches , Ulrich Weigand Subject: Re: [rfc] Fix info spu mailbox command References: <200803171322.m2HDMfBG006655@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> <47E01DB4.6030900@de.ibm.com> <20080318212521.GB3683@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20080318212521.GB3683@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00275.txt.bz2 Hi Joel, Joel Brobecker schrieb: >> +send_gdb "info spu mailbox\n" >> +gdb_expect { >> + -re "SPU Outbound Mailbox.*0xc0000000.*SPU Outbound Interrupt Mailbox.*0xc0000000.*$gdb_prompt $"\ >> + { xfail "info spu mailbox" } >> + -re "SPU Outbound Mailbox.*0x00000000.*SPU Outbound Interrupt Mailbox.*0x00000000.*$gdb_prompt $"\ >> + { pass "info spu mailbox" } >> + timeout { fail "(timeout) info spu mailbox" } >> +} > > Any reason for not using gdb_test_multiple in this case (instead of > send_gdb/gdb_expext)? gdb_test_multiple has been designed to handle > this type of test, and as a bonus, you won't have to handle the timeout > explicitly. > as far as I see gdb_expect is much more often used compared to gdb_test_multiple. What is the advantage of gdb_test_multiple compared to just send/expect? -- Markus Deuling GNU Toolchain for Linux on Cell BE deuling@de.ibm.com