From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com
Subject: Re: GDB version as convenience variable
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 10:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pnq8isvr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fa9c69e5-8da6-bf94-cf07-a6f9532dfebf@simark.ca> (message from Simon Marchi on Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:46:56 -0400)
> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com
> Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:46:56 -0400
>
> Apparently, the test default.exp needs to be changed in any case, because
> it adds new convenience variables. Without modification, the
> "show convenience" test fails because there is a new entry it doesn't know
> about.
>
> So for now, I would suggest adding the modification below to your patch to keep
> the test passing. It is not obvious to change the test to match the convenience
> variable value against a variable or even against a regexp, because it uses
> gdb_test_list_exact, which does straight string comparison.
>
> Also, I am not sure if reading the output of "show version" and testing against
> that would be a really good test, because the implementation and the test would
> work essentially work the same way. So if the version string erroneously becomes
> 0.0.0 because of some bug in some script, the test would still pass, even though
> the values are wrong.
>
> At least, the following is simple and robust.
Thanks, I used that, and pushed the changes including this one.
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2018-11-28 0:16 [PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 12/16] Style addresses Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 05/16] Add output styles to gdb Tom Tromey
2018-12-24 4:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-12-28 18:55 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 09/16] Style print_address_symbolic Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 14/16] Use wclrtoeol in tui_show_source_line Tom Tromey
2018-12-24 8:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 10/16] Style the gdb welcome message Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 06/16] Reset terminal styles Tom Tromey
2018-12-24 4:16 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-12-28 19:01 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 02/16] Add a "context" argument to add_setshow_enum_cmd Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:14 ` [PATCH 03/16] Introduce ui_file_style Tom Tromey
2018-12-24 3:40 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-12-28 18:54 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 16/16] Document the "set style" commands Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-28 19:19 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 07/16] Style variable names Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 11/16] Style the "Reading symbols" message Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 15/16] Highlight source code using GNU Source Highlight Tom Tromey
2019-11-16 0:58 ` Andrew Pinski
2019-11-16 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-24 17:41 ` Tom Tromey
2019-11-24 18:13 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-11-24 19:53 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 13/16] Make ANSI terminal escape sequences work in TUI Tom Tromey
2018-12-24 8:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-12-28 19:42 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 04/16] Change gdb test suite's TERM setting Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:16 ` [PATCH 08/16] Style locations when setting a breakpoint Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 0:19 ` [PATCH 01/16] Change wrap buffering to use a std::string Tom Tromey
2018-12-23 15:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-12-28 18:47 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-28 7:02 ` [PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-29 22:44 ` Tom Tromey
2018-11-30 7:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-30 16:17 ` Tom Tromey
2018-12-23 10:49 ` Joel Brobecker
2019-03-01 13:10 ` Pedro Alves
2019-03-01 13:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 14:10 ` Pedro Alves
2019-03-01 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 18:42 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-01 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-01 21:04 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-02 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-03 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-04 15:08 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-04 15:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-04 16:16 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-05 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 16:14 ` Hannes Domani via gdb-patches
2019-03-08 21:08 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-08 21:11 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-09 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-03 15:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-03 16:16 ` Matt Rice
2019-03-03 17:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-03 18:04 ` Matt Rice
2019-03-04 15:01 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-04 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-04 17:40 ` Tom Tromey
2019-03-06 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-20 19:35 ` GDB version as convenience variable Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 17:58 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-25 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 18:33 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-25 18:37 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-25 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-25 18:51 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-25 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-26 14:47 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-26 20:57 ` Joel Brobecker
2019-03-27 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-27 12:56 ` Joel Brobecker
2019-03-30 17:25 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-30 10:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-03-21 1:55 ` [PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI Simon Marchi
2019-03-21 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 15:02 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-21 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 16:06 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-21 16:12 ` Pedro Alves
2019-03-21 16:54 ` John Baldwin
2019-03-21 17:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-21 18:08 ` Simon Marchi
2019-03-21 18:19 ` Pedro Alves
2019-03-21 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-07 6:02 ` Joel Brobecker
2019-03-07 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-03-08 5:40 ` Joel Brobecker
2019-03-04 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-24 9:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2018-12-28 20:57 ` Tom Tromey
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