[PATCH 00/16] Add styling to the gdb CLI and TUI
Joel Brobecker
brobecker@adacore.com
Sun Dec 23 10:49:00 GMT 2018
[/me starting to look into this patch series...]
To answer one specific question:
> Is it possible to ssh in to a Windows machine and then use gdb? That's
> one scenario where you may want to keep the ANSI terminal escape
> sequences in the output. It also may affect how calls to the Windows
> API are handled.
Yes, it is possible to ssh into a Windows machine. The SSH server
we used is cygwin's one, and it's a bit of a special situation as stdin
is actually not viewed as a TTY, IIRC. This has various consequences
because we actually want GDB to think it's a TTY. This is why we have
the "set interactive mode" command.
I am no longer sure whether this is related to TTY-ness or not, but
buffering was also an issue, that caused stdout/stderr to be output
in random order. That caused a lot of grief trying to run the testsuite,
so we "fixed" that internally at AdaCore by turning buffering off
entirely.
--
Joel
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