[PATCH] Make tests expect [ \t]+ pattern instead of \t for "info reg" command

[Yao Qi]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Ruslan Kabatsayev
<b7.10110111@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> For your questions of "what format" and "why current is bad" please
> see my previously sent (but not applied) patch:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-07/msg00046.html
> (and its follow-up version 2:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-07/msg00406.html ).
> In short, "info reg" prints three columns, and the third one is
> aligned by a single tab. This works well only in two cases: all
> registers have short hex values (i.e. less than 8 chars wide), or all
> have long values. Then the tab shifts the third column of values to
> the same terminal character column.
> Initially (in the patch linked above) I wanted to preserve the tab and
> only pad it with subsequent spaces to a fixed column, thus avoiding
> breaking the tests, but after the discussion I understood that it's
> too hacky to be a solution, and it's better to fix the tests and then
> use space-only alignment, similarly to what is done with the second
> column.
>
> As for "some other patches", I don't have any particular change in
> mind currently.
>

Thanks for bringing more context, which is helpful to understand
the patch.  It is good to me, you can push.

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Yao (齐尧)