Re: [RFC] Fixing gdb.base/completion.exp (PR testsuite/12649)

[Marek Polacek <mpolacek at redhat dot com>]

On 04/27/2011 05:23 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> What are these problems exactly?

Duh.  Now I'm not sure what I've meant when writing this.  But
you cannot, for instance, use the '\t' in gdb_test "blahblah\t",
since this will end up with "ERROR: Undefined command".

> I also wonder what's the rationale for the sleeps in the
> current implementation?

Probably some imperfect way to avoid races--so the buffer would
be read at once after that sleep.

> An idea would be for the test to exercise all supported completion
> methods (using a convenience procedure, not duplicating
> the tests!).

That would be nice indeed.  But only if we'd keep it at the same time
as simple as possible.  Thanks,

	Marek