[PATCH] Printing of large objects not interruptable

Alastair Robertson alastair@ajor.co.uk
Mon Dec 8 22:39:00 GMT 2014


This patch makes the counting of repeated characters interruptable,
relating to bug 17613
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17613

This is my first patch, so sorry if I forgot to include something or
didn't format it correctly.

2014-12-07  Alastair Robertson  <alastair@ajor.co.uk>

	PR gdb/17613
	* valprint.c (count_next_character): Call QUIT


diff --git a/gdb/valprint.c b/gdb/valprint.c
index b995304..8d743b1 100644
--- a/gdb/valprint.c
+++ b/gdb/valprint.c
@@ -2151,6 +2151,8 @@ count_next_character (struct wchar_iterator *iter,
 
       while (1)
 	{
+	  QUIT;
+
 	  /* Get the next character.  */
 	  d.num_chars
 	    = wchar_iterate (iter, &d.result, &chars, &d.buf, &d.buflen);



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