RE: [PATCH] [testsuite] Disable Ctrl-V use for mingw hosts.

["Pierre Muller" <pierre dot muller at ics-cnrs dot unistra dot fr>]

  Hi all,

  the comment is a more useful addition to the patch
than the change itself, so please don't forget to add
your name to mine in the ChangeLog entry!

Pierre Muller

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [mailto:gdb-patches-
> owner@sourceware.org] De la part de Yao Qi
> Envoyà : mardi 8 avril 2014 08:05
> Ã : Joel Brobecker
> Cc : gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Objet : Re: [PATCH] [testsuite] Disable Ctrl-V use for mingw hosts.
> 
> On 04/08/2014 12:39 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > Sorry about the wait. OK, but with a small change in the comment
> > to say that the ctrl-v character is not only unnecessary on MinGW
> > but actually harmful for the test because that character isn't
> > recognized as an escape character.
> 
> OK, comments are updated.  Patch below is pushed in.
> 
> >
> > It'd be nice to know when @ is actually an escape character (just
> > thinking out loud, not asking you to do the research - a google
> > research doesn't quite clarify this for me).
> 
> I don't know either.
> 
> --
> Yao (éå)
> 
> gdb/testsuite:
> 
> 2014-04-08  Pierre Muller  <muller@sourceware.org>
> 
> 	* gdb.base/printcmds.exp (test_artificial_arrays): Disable
> 	Ctrl-V use for mingw hosts.
> ---
>  gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp | 12 ++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp
> b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp
> index 8f38aca..3253d91 100644
> --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/printcmds.exp
> @@ -631,8 +631,16 @@ proc test_print_typedef_arrays {} {
> 
>  proc test_artificial_arrays {} {
>      # Send \026@ instead of just @ in case the kill character is @.
> -    gdb_test_escape_braces "p int1dim\[0\]\026@2" " = {0, 1}" {p
> int1dim[0]@2}
> -    gdb_test_escape_braces "p int1dim\[0\]\026@2\026@3" \
> +    # \026 (ctrl-v) is to escape the next character (@), but it is
> +    # not only unnecessary to do so on MingW hosts, but also harmful
> +    # for the test because that character isn't recognized as an
> +    # escape character.
> +    set ctrlv "\026"
> +    if [ishost *-*-mingw*] {
> +	set ctrlv ""
> +    }
> +    gdb_test_escape_braces "p int1dim\[0\]${ctrlv}@2" " = {0, 1}" {p
> int1dim[0]@2}
> +    gdb_test_escape_braces "p int1dim\[0\]${ctrlv}@2${ctrlv}@3" \
>  	"({{0, 1}, {2, 3}, {4, 5}}|\[Cc\]annot.*)" \
>  	{p int1dim[0]@2@3}
>      gdb_test_escape_braces {p/x (short [])0x12345678} \
> --
> 1.8.1.4