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Subject: Re: Testing of reverse debug commands
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Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:01:45 +0200, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>>     gdb_test "record" "" "Turn on process record"
>>>     # FIXME: command ought to acknowledge, so we can test if it succeeded.
>> This is just a shot in the dark since I really don't have much time
>> to double-check this, but does gdb_test_multiple allow you to verify
>> that no output was generated? For some reason, I thought it did.
> 
> This one works but not sure if it cannot have some problems:
> 
> set cmd "set verbose 0"
> gdb_test $cmd "[string_to_regexp $cmd]"

Hmm, ok, three people so far have responded with
work-arounds (thanks).

Does that mean y'all lean toward NOT making the
commands generate some output of their own?

Now would be the time to decide, before the first official release...