Re: [PATCH] Fix a pair of screen-resizing issues in TUI

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

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