Subject: bug#66363: closed (Re: bug#66363: gdb-control-commands-regexp issues)

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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 16:36:01 +0000

Your bug report

#66363: gdb-control-commands-regexp issues

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#66363: gdb-control-commands-regexp issues
From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
To: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:34:48 +0100
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Pushed to master after finally finding a machine with gdb on it.

Subject: gdb-control-commands-regexp issues
From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
To: Emacs Bug Report <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 17:07:22 +0200
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The variable `gdb-control-commands-regexp` in gdb-mi.el cannot work as currently defined and used. Only group 3 is of  interest, but that group hasn't referred to anything useful for several years.

Group 3 probably refers to a part of the regex's tail where the command argument is matched:

   "\\([[:blank:]]+\\([^[:blank:]]*\\)\\)*$"

However, this seems to be broken as well, because all groups here are inside repetitions. This part of the regexp is also exponential in form if not in practice but we'd better simplify it anyway.

Attached is a suggested patch which makes explicit the command abbreviations matched, and leaves only a single submatch. It also changes the tail to assuming that the command argument doesn't contain non-newlines (or the final eol anchor wouldn't make sense) but that it can contain spaces (which seems reasonable). However, right now the argument is only checked for being non-empty or not.

I don't have a working gdb setup at the moment so if someone would be kind to test it, I would be very grateful for it.