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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] testsuite avoid tcl error in gdb.threads/gcore-thread.exp
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinBsLleeLJUQ7DB5wyP9As8IM5OWr3RIHONxGOl@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5627205469024062490@unknownmsgid>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Pierre Muller
<pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr> wrote:
>> Pedantically, you don't need that "global" statement anymore.
>
>  I still didn't really understand this:
>  when I run a testsuite with
> 'make check'.
> All individual tests are run from runtest script
> which itself uses runtest procedure to execute
> each .exp file using the source command.
>  Thus I was thinking that the code
> inside each .exp  file was not at global level,
> but only at 'runtest procedure level', and I am not even sure
> which level that procedure runs.
>  Could someone explain to me why we are for sure
> at global level when a .exp file is sourced?

Because runtest invokes the .exp file as:

        if { [catch "uplevel #0 source $test_file_name"] == 1 } {


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-26 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 13:59 Pierre Muller
2010-06-23 14:42 ` Pedro Alves
2010-06-23 15:31   ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]   ` <5627205469024062490@unknownmsgid>
2010-06-26 17:16     ` Doug Evans [this message]

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