[PATCH] Fix testsuite hangs when gdb_test_multiple body errors out (Re: GDB 8.2.90 available for testing)

[Pedro Alves]

On 03/25/2019 07:43 PM, Pedro Franco de Carvalho wrote:
> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

>> Maybe meanwhile, we could ask on the dejagnu list what's the purpose
>> of this picking one of eof/timeout/default as an error block, see if
>> that could be removed.  I'd guess that dejagnu would change faster
>> than expect here, or maybe I should say, less slowly.  :-)
> 
> I can do that if you want, and let them know about the comment tokens
> affecting the error block selection too.

I've done that today, after digging into expect's sources, to see how
it manages to handle comments.

[Why does remote_expect call the timeout/eof/default section if there is an error on the expect call?]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dejagnu/2019-03/msg00010.html

[remote_expect gets confused by comments, unlike raw expect]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/dejagnu/2019-03/msg00011.html

Thanks,
Pedro Alves