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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Richard Bunt <Richard.Bunt@arm.com>,  "gdb-patches\@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,  nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Restore original GDB prompt in define.exp
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X-Yow: ..Hmmm...This thing is really VIBRATING! ..It's getting WARM, too!
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 14:49:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <87lfxfjiz6.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Wed, 03 Jul	2019 08:22:37 -0600")
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On Jul 03 2019, Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Bunt <Richard.Bunt@arm.com> writes:
>
> Richard> -gdb_test_multiple "set prompt \\(gdb\\) " "reset gdb_prompt" {
> Richard> +gdb_test_multiple "set prompt $gdb_prompt " "reset gdb_prompt" {
>
> This is peculiar because both the original code and the new code have
> backslashes in the "set" command -- gdb_prompt is actually a regexp, not
> just a plain string.  But, it works anyhow, I guess something along the
> way is ignoring the "\".

That's because it's a var_string, not a var_string_noescape.

Andreas.

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