ui_out format strings for fields and styles (Re: [PATCH] Style "pwd" output)
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Wed Jun 5 20:42:00 GMT 2019
On 6/5/19 9:39 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> The format strings do get a bit ... wild:
>
> "%pS%s%pN %pS%s%pN\n"
>
> With your suggestion, it'd look like:
>
> "%p[%s%p] %p[%s%p]\n"
>
> I'm thinking that %pS/%pN %p[/%pN] are more appropriate when
> the styled string is constant, like:
>
> "this %p[text here%p] should be styled\n"
>
> For the seemingly common case of printing a string variable
> with a style, I'm thinking that a specific formatter would
> be better. I'll post a follow up patch for that.
Here it is. I used %ps.
I pushed these two to the branch, in case you want to play with
them. (I'm not likely to play with this any more today.)
>From 52bf8432db926e2ce2ff8bdbececd242e93b4ca7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 21:15:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce %ps / styled_string
---
gdb/common/format.c | 1 +
gdb/symtab.c | 24 +++++++++++-------------
gdb/ui-out.c | 6 ++++++
gdb/ui-out.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/common/format.c b/gdb/common/format.c
index d33eab2b2b0..177f79afee3 100644
--- a/gdb/common/format.c
+++ b/gdb/common/format.c
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ format_pieces::format_pieces (const char **arg, bool gdb_extensions)
{
switch (f[1])
{
+ case 's':
case 'S':
case 'F':
case 'N':
diff --git a/gdb/symtab.c b/gdb/symtab.c
index 5696d6fa890..7dbf24eb7c5 100644
--- a/gdb/symtab.c
+++ b/gdb/symtab.c
@@ -4603,10 +4603,9 @@ print_symbol_info (enum search_domain kind,
if (filename_cmp (last, s_filename) != 0)
{
- current_uiout->message ("\nFile %pS%s%pN:\n",
- ptr (ui_out_style_kind::FILE),
- s_filename,
- nullptr);
+ current_uiout->message
+ (_("\nFile %ps:\n"),
+ styled_string (ui_out_style_kind::FILE, s_filename).ptr ());
}
if (SYMBOL_LINE (sym) != 0)
@@ -4653,15 +4652,14 @@ print_msymbol_info (struct bound_minimal_symbol msymbol)
tmp = hex_string_custom (BMSYMBOL_VALUE_ADDRESS (msymbol),
16);
- current_uiout->message (_("%pS%s%pN %pS%s%pN\n"),
- ptr (ui_out_style_kind::ADDRESS),
- tmp,
- nullptr,
- (msymbol.minsym->text_p ()
- ? ptr (ui_out_style_kind::FUNCTION)
- : ptr (ui_out_style_kind::DEFAULT)),
- MSYMBOL_PRINT_NAME (msymbol.minsym),
- nullptr);
+ ui_out_style_kind sym_style = (msymbol.minsym->text_p ()
+ ? ui_out_style_kind::FUNCTION
+ : ui_out_style_kind::DEFAULT);
+
+ current_uiout->message
+ (_("%ps %ps\n"),
+ styled_string (ui_out_style_kind::ADDRESS, tmp).ptr (),
+ styled_string (sym_style, MSYMBOL_PRINT_NAME (msymbol.minsym)).ptr ());
}
/* This is the guts of the commands "info functions", "info types", and
diff --git a/gdb/ui-out.c b/gdb/ui-out.c
index 6e1c87ab841..4169fdcb935 100644
--- a/gdb/ui-out.c
+++ b/gdb/ui-out.c
@@ -612,6 +612,12 @@ ui_out::message (const char *format, ...)
field_int (field->name (), field->val ());
}
break;
+ case 's':
+ {
+ styled_string *ss = va_arg (args, styled_string *);
+ call_do_message (ss->style (), "%s", ss->str ());
+ }
+ break;
case 'S':
style = *va_arg (args, ui_out_style_kind *);
break;
diff --git a/gdb/ui-out.h b/gdb/ui-out.h
index 18af856313d..059d1e376aa 100644
--- a/gdb/ui-out.h
+++ b/gdb/ui-out.h
@@ -103,6 +103,26 @@ private:
int m_val;
};
+struct styled_string
+{
+ styled_string (ui_out_style_kind style, const char *str)
+ : m_style (style),
+ m_str (str)
+ {
+ }
+
+ /* We need this because we can't pass a reference via
+ va_args. */
+ const styled_string *ptr () const { return this; }
+
+ ui_out_style_kind style () const {return m_style; }
+ const char *str () const {return m_str; }
+
+private:
+ ui_out_style_kind m_style;
+ const char *m_str;
+};
+
/* Wrap a ui_out_style_kind in a pointer to a temporary. */
/* XXX: Make a template? */
--
2.14.5
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