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

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Sep 8 13:27:00 GMT 2003


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.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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