Re: [rfa/gdb.mi] Fail (known bug) when ``Hello''

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at redhat dot com>]

Yes, thanks.

Fernando

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> G'day,
> 
> The attatched changes the ``Hello'' test to recognize raw (instead of
> MI's console) output reporting it as a fail.  Without the patch, the
> test fails, eventually, via a timeout.
> 
> The test work does work on remote targets.  Fixing it on a native target
> is hard - there are too many ducks and I'm having fun getting just one
> of them to stand in a straight line :-)
> 
>         Andrew
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 2001-03-19  Andrew Cagney  <ac131313@redhat.com>
> 
>         * gdb.mi/mi-console.exp: Document ``Hello'' as a known bug.
> 
> Index: gdb.mi/mi-console.exp
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/mi-console.exp,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -p -r1.1 mi-console.exp
> *** mi-console.exp      2000/02/23 00:25:43     1.1
> --- mi-console.exp      2001/03/19 15:31:04
> *************** gdb_expect {
> *** 78,83 ****
> --- 78,94 ----
>   gdb_expect {
>       -re "@\"H\"\r\n.*@\"e\"\r\n.*@\"l\"\r\n.*@\"l\"\r\n.*@\"o\"\r\n.*@\" \"\r\n.*@\"\\\\\\\\\"\r\n.*@\"\\\\\"\"\r\n.*@\"!\"\r\n.*@\"\\\\r\"\r\n.*@\"\\\\n\"\r\n" {
>         pass "Hello message"
> +     }
> +     -re "Hello" {
> +
> +       # Probably a native system where GDB doesn't have direct
> +       # control over the inferior console.
> +       # For this to work, GDB would need to run the inferior process
> +       # under a PTY and then use the even-loops ability to wait on
> +       # multiple event sources to channel the output back through the
> +       # MI.
> +
> +       fail "Hello message (known bug)"
>       }
>       timeout {
>         fail "Hello message (timeout)"

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