From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18846 invoked by alias); 14 Apr 2004 21:30:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18839 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2004 21:30:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out3.apple.com) (17.254.13.22) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2004 21:30:43 -0000 Received: from mailgate2.apple.com (a17-128-100-204.apple.com [17.128.100.204]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3ELUhg7012035 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay2.apple.com (relay2.apple.com) by mailgate2.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.6) with ESMTP id ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:30:43 -0700 Received: from [17.201.22.21] (moleja.apple.com [17.201.22.21]) by relay2.apple.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i3ELUeNd025002; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:30:41 GMT In-Reply-To: References: <65F7C997-8E45-11D8-8B96-000393D457E2@apple.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Jason Molenda Subject: Re: Dejagnu testsuite Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:20:00 -0000 To: Manoj Iyer X-SW-Source: 2004-04/txt/msg00084.txt.bz2 On Apr 14, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Manoj Iyer wrote: > > ok, go it! I was able to run the testcase, now I am trying to determine > why the testcase broke/failed, is there a way to re-create the failure > manually by running GDB against the test (using the assertion) that > failed? See the gdb/testsuite/gdb.log file for what was going on. > For example how does the testcase translate variables like $hex? how > does > it know that $hex is the right value that GDB prints?? It's a convenience regexp which matches a hex value. $decimal, $ws (whitespace), $nl, etc. are also used in test cases. J