[issue8316] test_gdb is susceptible to tty width settings

2010-04-05 Thread R. David Murray
R. David Murray added the comment: Committed in r79803. I changed the assert_ to an if not m/fail, since assert_ is deprecated and I think the if makes it clearer than the assert_ what it is that is being checked. -- components: +Tests priority: -> normal resolution: -> fixed stage

[issue8316] test_gdb is susceptible to tty width settings

2010-04-05 Thread Dave Malcolm
New submission from Dave Malcolm : test_gdb's get_gdb_repr carves up a gdb backtrace to try to extract how gdb representated the data. When connected to a tty, gdb will insert additional newlines and spaces based on the width of the tty (internally it has a wrap_here() function to do this), s