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Re: [RFA] testsuite/gdb.base/bang.exp: Allow trailing text after "Program exited normally"
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 09:27:17 -0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA] testsuite/gdb.base/bang.exp: Allow trailing text after "Program exited normally"
- References: <20030908114200.GG1859@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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