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Re: RFA: patch to fix gdb/1680
- From: mec dot gnu at mindspring dot com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain)
- To: jingham at apple dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 22:44:17 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: RFA: patch to fix gdb/1680
> Note, this duplication of the regexp engine is what I wrote about a
> couple of weeks ago when removing expect first came up...
I found your message again after I posted mine ... now I feel dumb.
"Three months in the lab can often save thirty minutes in the library."
We're in pretty good shape with gdb because I've been using
stock TCL 8.4.6 + Expect 5.41 for a long time, years now.
So I've already swept the minefield, as it were.
> Finally, note that if you need to see the result regexp as it ACTUALLY
> gets to dejagnu, pass the --debug flag in RUNTESTFLAGS, and it will
> spit out a file named dbg.log in build/gdb/testsuite which shows among
> much other stuff the actual regexp that dejagnu is trying to match.
Wow, I didn't know about that. That will help me in the future.
Michael C