Re: [rfc] Completion tests failing

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>]

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

Elena