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Re: [PATCH] Fix a pair of screen-resizing issues in TUI
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Patrick Palka <patrick at parcs dot ath dot cx>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:27:04 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix a pair of screen-resizing issues in TUI
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- References: <1420861759-10700-1-git-send-email-patrick at parcs dot ath dot cx>
On 01/10/2015 03:49 AM, Patrick Palka wrote:
> This patch fixes a pair of TUI issues related to screen resizing:
>
> 1. In tui_handle_resize_during_io(), when the TUI screen gets resized,
> we fail to update GDB's idea about the height of the output window.
>
> You can see this bug by doing:
>
> a. Enter TUI mode.
> b. "show height"
> c. Resize the terminal.
> d. "show height"
>
> And observe that despite resizing the terminal, the reported height
> remains unchanged. Note that a similar issue exists in the CLI.
>
> The fix for this is simple: call tui_update_gdb_sizes() after performing
> a resize, so that the "height" variable remains consistent with the
> height of TUI's output window.
>
> 2. In tui_enable(), the call to tui_update_gdb_sizes() may clobber
> readline's idea of the actual screen dimensions, and a subsequent
> pending resize will use bogus terminal dimensions.
>
> You can see this bug by doing:
>
> a. Enter TUI mode.
> b. Exit TUI mode.
> c. Resize the terminal.
> d. Enter TUI mode.
> e. Press a key to resize the screen.
>
> And observe that the terminal gets incorrectly resized to the wrong
> dimensions. To fix this issue, we should oppurtunistically resize the
> screen in tui_enable(). That way we eliminate the possibility of a
> pending resize triggering right after we call tui_update_gdb_sizes().
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> * tui/tui-io.c (tui_handle_resize_during_io): Call
> tui_update_gdb_sizes() after resizing the screen.
> * tui/tui.c (tui_enable): Resize the terminal before
> calling tui_update_gdb_sizes().
OK.
Thanks!
--
Pedro Alves