[PATCH] quoting curly braces in call-rt-st

Michael Snyder msnyder@cygnus.com
Wed Jul 25 15:35:00 GMT 2001


Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> "H . J . Lu" wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:37:54PM -0400, Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > > Michael Snyder wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Using double-backslash to quote curly braces in regular expressions
> > > > seems so satisfy the largest subset of versions of expect.
> > > >
> > >
> > > If I understand right, Michael claims his double-backslashed version works with both incarnations of expect regexps.  So, we have a perfectly valid pattern which is more robust (works independently of the expect version).
> > >
> > > I think we should make this change anyway.
> > >
> >
> > See
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-07/msg00034.html
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-09/msg00353.html
> >
> > H.J.
> 
> Thank you H.J.
> 
> Folks, we may want to do the same on other test files...

By "do the same", do you mean "use double backslash to quote "{"/"}"?
If so, I agree with you.



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