From: Marek Polacek <mpolacek@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fixing gdb.base/completion.exp (PR testsuite/12649)
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB85510.90808@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201104271623.21862.pedro@codesourcery.com>
On 04/27/2011 05:23 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> What are these problems exactly?
Duh. Now I'm not sure what I've meant when writing this. But
you cannot, for instance, use the '\t' in gdb_test "blahblah\t",
since this will end up with "ERROR: Undefined command".
> I also wonder what's the rationale for the sleeps in the
> current implementation?
Probably some imperfect way to avoid races--so the buffer would
be read at once after that sleep.
> An idea would be for the test to exercise all supported completion
> methods (using a convenience procedure, not duplicating
> the tests!).
That would be nice indeed. But only if we'd keep it at the same time
as simple as possible. Thanks,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-27 14:59 Marek Polacek
2011-04-27 15:05 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-04-27 15:13 ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-27 15:23 ` Pedro Alves
2011-04-27 17:41 ` Marek Polacek [this message]
2011-04-28 14:19 ` Pedro Alves
2011-04-28 15:14 ` Pedro Alves
2011-04-29 14:10 ` Marek Polacek
2011-05-02 14:58 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-01 9:17 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-02 14:00 ` Marek Polacek
2011-05-02 14:19 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-02 14:53 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-02 15:30 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-02 15:44 ` Joel Brobecker
2011-05-02 15:50 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-02 15:56 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-02 16:10 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-02 16:35 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-02 16:54 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-02 17:04 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-02 17:21 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-02 17:23 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-02 17:29 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-05-02 17:53 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-02 17:56 ` Pedro Alves
2011-05-05 15:11 ` Tom Tromey
2011-04-28 11:56 ` Marek Polacek
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