On 7/19/2026 11:57 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
This can be trivially fixed by using backreferences; this is ultimately
TCL after all and you can use all the regexp syntax available. I do
believe I used this feature before in our testsuite (or was it binutils?),
so it wouldn't be exactly new use even if I were the only one.
I believe I've seen it used occasionally.
I can see the submitter has given up too easily and offered a stripped
fix instead that got since committed, but I think the testcase ought to be
retrofitted and I do hope you'll agree given that you claim to be a strong
supporter for test coverage.
Feel free to improve it. We can reasonably disagree on engineering
decisions like this and I'd happily ack a stronger test which wasn't
bound to specific registers. I didn't feel this specific issue really
needed a deeply thorough test.
jeff
