From: Martin Galvan <martin.galvan@tallertechnologies.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
Yao Qi <qiyaoltc@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] testsuite: Remove the unneeded escaping of '[' and ']' characters in test_class_help
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOKbPbb2CmhSCb+jA_uDKn01mB2CBr1H+k-vGbk2ROHD5a7FPA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22Sk+d6cKN5w77vCE2=Zk=u8A1YGae_agoiiBqve3a8MkQ@mail.gmail.com>
Is it ok to commit as it is, or should I change the comment to reflect
what Andreas said?
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> Martin Galvan <martin.galvan@tallertechnologies.com> writes:
>>
>>> +# Notice that the '[' and ']' characters don't need to be escaped for strings
>>> +# wrapped in {} braces.
>>
>> This isn't true in general, it's because this is a tcl list. The
>> backslashes are removed when the list is passed through join in
>> help_test_raw (which removes one level of quoting, but doesn't do
>> command or variable expansion). But that also means that the backslash
>> before '.' is ineffective and should be replaced by a double backslash.
>> Alternatively, each element could be enclosed with braces which disables
>> any quoting inside it.
>>
>>> proc test_class_help { command_class expected_initial_lines args } {
>>> set l_stock_body {
>>> - "List of commands\:.*\[\r\n\]+"
>>> - "Type \"help\" followed by command name for full documentation\.\[\r\n\]+"
>>> - "Type \"apropos word\" to search for commands related to \"word\"\.[\r\n\]+"
>>> + "List of commands\:.*[\r\n]+"
>>
>> The backslash before ':' is useless.
>
> Thanks for the clarity.
> We don't have to fix all issues in this patch, so the patch is fine with me.
--
Martin Galvan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-29 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-28 4:01 Martin Galvan
2015-06-28 9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-06-29 14:04 ` Doug Evans
2015-06-29 21:17 ` Martin Galvan [this message]
2015-06-29 21:43 ` Doug Evans
2015-06-30 21:28 ` Martin Galvan
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