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Re: RFA: Remove unused synchronous code
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>
- Subject: Re: RFA: Remove unused synchronous code
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 14:18:59 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: ezannoni at cygnus dot com, fnasser at cygnus dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com, ac131313 at cygnus dot com
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Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
> > Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:02:41 -0500 (EST)
> >
> > Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Elena Zannoni wrote:
> > >
> > > > Eli has a point.
> > > > I would like to close this issue and leave things as they are
> > > > for the 5.1 release.
> > >
> > > FYI: I have a known bug with using the async code in the DJGPP port.
> > > If you type quickly, sometimes characters get stuck in some buffer,
> > > and GDB becomes out of sync with user keystrokes; i.e. you type a key,
> > > but GDB sees the previous key.
> >
> > Ah, thanks. I suspect there are a few (several?) bugs that still needs
> > to be ironed out.
> >
> > > I don't yet know whether this is due to some bug in the DJGPP's
> > > version of `select' or something in GDB's own code. It's the next
> > > issue I will be working on RSN, and I hope to get it solved for v5.1.
> > >
> >
> > Let me know if i can do something.
> > Have you seen this anywhere else other than DJGPP?
>
> I debugged this. It's a bug in DJGPP's library (`select' wasn't
> paying attention to characters buffered by the termios emulation).
> After fixing it, the -async option is working correctly in the DJGPP
> port.
>
Ah, Great!
Thanks
Elena