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Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] Further cleanup/modernization of gdb.base/commands.exp
On 2016-11-09 10:59, Pedro Alves wrote:
And I'm wondering whether this below as well would be a good idea,
or whether it'd obfuscate? If a good idea, maybe we'd put the new
variable in gdb.exp.
...
@@ -45,7 +50,7 @@ proc_with_prefix gdbvar_simple_if_test {} {
"else" \
" p/x 0xdeadbeef" \
"end"] \
- "\\\$\[0-9\]* = 0xdeadbeef" \
+ "$valnum_re = 0xdeadbeef" \
"#1"
That's not bad. I was going to suggest using {} instead of "" to get
rid of most backslashes (untested):
-"\\\$\[0-9\]* = 0xdeadbeef"
+{\$[0-9]* = 0xdeadbeef}
but with the variable it looks good as well.