[PATCH] Add test for string evaluation with "debug expression" on

Simon Marchi
2014-07-15T17:19:36Z

As Joel pointed out in...
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-07/msg00391.html
...it would be nice to add a test for that.

Tested on Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu 14.10).

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog

2014-07-15 Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>

* gdb.base/debug-expr.exp: Test string evaluation with
"debug expression" on.
---
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/debug-expr.exp | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/debug-expr.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/debug-expr.exp
index d7c82b0..5576091 100644
--- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/debug-expr.exp
+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/debug-expr.exp
@@ -50,3 +50,8 @@ gdb_test_no_output "set debug expression 1"
# This caused gdb to segfault.
test_debug_expr "print /x {char\[4\]} array" \
"\[$\]$decimal = \\{0x0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3\\}"
+
+# This caused gdb to output garbage and possibly segfault
+gdb_test "print \"hello\"" \
+ ".*OP_STRING\[^\r\n\]*Language-specific string type: 0.*\[\r\n\]\\$$decimal = \"hello\"\[\r\n\].*" \
+ "String evaluation with debug expr"
--
2.0.0