Re: [PATCH] Add autocompletion for convenience vars in print and set

[Daniel Gutson <daniel dot gutson at tallertechnologies dot com>]

(sorry top posting)

Has this patch been applied?

Thanks,

   Daniel.

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Daniel Gutson
<daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com> wrote:
>> On 22/05/2014 4:17 PM, Daniel Gutson wrote:
>>> Second version.
>>> Comments below:
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Gutson <daniel.gutson@tallertechnologies.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>> Daniel> I could not find any testsuite where to add tests for this; if
>>>> Daniel> there are, please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> See testsuite/gdb.base/completion.exp
>>>
>>> Thanks, I ran all the tests and passed. I did not add a new test
>>> case though since I didn't check how to add a new convenience var
>>> and undefine it later from the test framework. (Should I try harder?)
>>
>> I'm not a maintainer, but you'll probably be asked for some tests of
>> this (really useful) feature.
>>
>> I don't think you need to worry about removing any convenience
>> variables you create, each .exp test file starts gdb afresh,
>> and sometime (look for clean_restart) gdb is restarted within
>> a single .exp file.
>>
>> For this feature you can probably get away with just adding some
>> new tests to the end of the completion.exp file, I've included an
>> example test in this mail, but you'll probably want some more.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/completion.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/completion.exp
>> index 2608309..c028548 100644
>> --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/completion.exp
>> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/completion.exp
>> @@ -747,6 +747,27 @@ gdb_test_multiple "" "$test" {
>>      }
>>  }
>>
>> +set test "complete '\$cv_'"
>> +gdb_test_no_output "set \$cv_aaa = 4" \
>> +    "Create convenience variable \$cv_aaa"
>> +send_gdb "p \$cv_"
>> +gdb_test_multiple "" "$test" {
>> +    -re "^p \\\$cv_" {
>> +       send_gdb "\t"
>> +       gdb_test_multiple "" "$test" {
>> +           -re "aaa $" {
>> +               send_gdb "\n"
>> +               gdb_test_multiple "" "$test" {
>> +                   -re "\\\$\[0-9\]+ = 4.*$gdb_prompt $" {
>> +                       pass "$test"
>> +                   }
>> +               }
>> +           }
>> +       }
>> +    }
>> +}
>> +
>> +
>>  # Restore globals modified in this test...
>>  set timeout $oldtimeout1
>
> Thanks Andrew!
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> Daniel F. Gutson
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