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Re: [PATCH] Fix a bug in tstatus.exp matching tstatus output

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:35:36 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a bug in tstatus.exp matching tstatus output
References: <1362411345-22308-1-git-send-email-yao@codesourcery.com> <20130304162248.GB4472@adacore.com>

Joel> I don't understand why the third backslash would be needed, though.
Joel> The first two is the backslash escaping the '(' character in the
Joel> regular expression. The third one escapes the '(' as the TCL string
Joel> level, but I don't think it is a special character (like '[' is,
Joel> for instance), is it?

You are correct.  The third backslash is not needed for parens.

Tom

References:
- [PATCH] Fix a bug in tstatus.exp matching tstatus output
  - From: Yao Qi
- Re: [PATCH] Fix a bug in tstatus.exp matching tstatus output
  - From: Joel Brobecker

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