[rfc] Completion tests failing

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 09:34:06PM -0400, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
>  > I don't like failing tests... especially ones that time out after absurd
>  > periods of time.  So, I've been looking at the testsuite, particularly
>  > completion.exp today.
>  > 
>  > The test failing for me right now is completion for 'p "a<tab>'.  The
>  > comments, and the testsuite, say that this is a string literal and should
>  > not be completed.  The code tries to complete it as a location, though, and
>  > decides to run it through location_completer. make_symbol_completion_list
>  > notices the stray ", and decides not to allow completion; but
>  > make_source_files_completion_list does no such thing.
>  > 
>  > Which behavior would people prefer?  I can update the testsuite to match. 
>  > I'd also like to add expressions like:
>  > 
>  >         -re "^p \"a\[^\"\]*\"$"     { fail "complete 'p \"a'" }
>  > 
>  > if it is not supposed to complete; that is, if gdb completes it to something
>  > and supplies the trailing quote, fail now, instead of waiting for timeout
>  > and failing the next dozen tests too.
>  > 
>  > -- 
>  > Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
>  > MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer
> 
> 
> Daniel, is this related to the problem that Corinna was seeing?
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2001-08/msg00299.html

Thanks - I'd missed that!  Yes, it's the same problem.  I think that
Corinna missed the comments describing the expected outcome, though -
rather than papering over the problem by making '"a' ambiguous, it
looks as if '"a' is not intended to complete at all.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer