From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2061 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2012 14:04:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 2047 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Apr 2012 14:04:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_RCVD_UNTRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:03:59 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3QE3wPq018082 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:03:58 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q3QE3v9c031371; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 10:03:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4F9955CD.5040106@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:04:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: FYI: fixlet for linux-dp.exp References: <8762cndijg.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <8762cndijg.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: 2012-04/txt/msg00905.txt.bz2 On 04/25/2012 02:53 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > It would be nice if dejagnu made a new interpreter for each .exp file, > so that variable name clashes couldn't happen... I assume this would mean use "interp create". It's even on dejagnu's TODO file: Last updated $Date: 2004/02/08 14:02:07 $ Bigger items ============ ... * Use a throw-away slave interpreter for running each test case. I think the trouble would be globals that _are_ supposed to be persistent across tests, like e.g., "portnum", or whatever other globals board files can come up with. We'd need some common way to make those "master interp" owned variables (through aliases or env vars?). Alternatively, we could save/restore globals, but there's no globals standard naming scheme in place to make that remotely sane. -- Pedro Alves