Re: PATCH: simplify regular expressions

Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 12/10/2018 10:30 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
>   
>> Should DejaGnu eventually support GDB's MI mode, possibly in another module?
>>     
>
> Would this be for GDB's own testing, or for something else?
>   

The intent was (future) use of GDB as a tool within DejaGnu as part of 
tests for something else.  Probably as a remote channel type, possibly 
with both transfer and control capabilities.

> GDB already has MI testcases driven by dejagnu.  Most live under gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi/
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=tree;f=gdb/testsuite/gdb.mi
>
> We don't have an actual TCL MI parser though, MI testing is mostly
> regular expression based.

That might be a good thing for GDB:  an MI parser would be another 
possible source of bugs, while the tests for MI itself really need to 
test MI, not their own parser.


-- Jacob