Re: [RFA] testsuite/gdb.base/bang.exp: Allow trailing text after"Program exited normally"

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:42:01PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > while testing I found that a test for ending the program in
> > gdb.base/bang.exp failed, even though the target had actually
> > exited normally.  The cause of the FAIL is that bang.exp doesn't
> > expect anything after the string "Program exited normally.".
> > On the sh target at least, the output after exiting contains a
> > bit more text:
> >
> >   Program exited normally.
> >   [Switching to process 0] 
> >
> > Since that trailing output after a normal exit doesn't change
> > anything with respect to the testresult, I propose to allow
> > trailing characters:
>
>
> But isn't the [Switching to process 0] a bug?  We aren't switching
> processes, the inferior is dead.

Yes.  The message is both a bug and a very long standing regression.

Andrew

PS: Suggest a reminder comment that SIGNALED is really "terminated with 
signal" :-)