Re: RFC: fix race in py-explore.exp

[Siva Chandra <sivachandra@google.com>]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
> I had py-explore.exp spuriously fail on me.
>
> I think it needs to expect the prompt in this spot.
> I'm not totally sure about this, comments requested.

How do we reproduce this failure? I am not seeing this on my side with head.

> Built and regtested on x86-64 Fedora 16.
>
> Tom
>
>         * gdb.python/py-explore.exp: Expect the gdb prompt.
> ---
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-explore.exp |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-explore.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-explore.exp
> index 0fb67d3..bc4446d 100644
> --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-explore.exp
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.python/py-explore.exp
> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ gdb_test_multiple "explore ss_ptr" "" {
>      -re "[pointer_description {ss_ptr} $SS].*" {
>          pass "explore ss_ptr"
>          gdb_test_multiple "y" "explore_as_single_value_pointer" {
> -            -re "$SS_fields" {
> +            -re "$SS_fields.*$gdb_prompt" {
>                  pass "explore ss_ptr as single value pointer"
>              }
>          }
> --
> 1.7.7.6
>