Re: [rfc] Completion tests failing

Elena Zannoni
2001-09-26T18:26:00Z

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<tab>'. 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