From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Elena Zannoni To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [rfc] Completion tests failing Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 18:26:00 -0000 Message-id: <15282.33294.964751.338563@krustylu.cygnus.com> References: <20010926211336.A31592@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00217.html Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > I don't like failing tests... especially ones that time out after absurd > periods of time. So, I've been looking at the testsuite, particularly > completion.exp today. > > The test failing for me right now is completion for 'p "a'. The > comments, and the testsuite, say that this is a string literal and should > not be completed. The code tries to complete it as a location, though, and > decides to run it through location_completer. make_symbol_completion_list > notices the stray ", and decides not to allow completion; but > make_source_files_completion_list does no such thing. > > Which behavior would people prefer? I can update the testsuite to match. > I'd also like to add expressions like: > > -re "^p \"a\[^\"\]*\"$" { fail "complete 'p \"a'" } > > if it is not supposed to complete; that is, if gdb completes it to something > and supplies the trailing quote, fail now, instead of waiting for timeout > and failing the next dozen tests too. > > -- > Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University > MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer Daniel, is this related to the problem that Corinna was seeing? http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-08/msg00299.html Elena