From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, xdje42@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3 v2] Implement completion limiting
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d288obkc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417094168-25868-4-git-send-email-gbenson@redhat.com>
> From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
> Cc: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 13:16:08 +0000
>
> This commit adds a new exception, TOO_MANY_COMPLETIONS_ERROR, to be
> thrown whenever the completer has generated too many candidates to
> be useful. A new user-settable variable, "max_completions", is added
> to control this behaviour. A top-level completion limit is added to
> complete_line_internal, as the final check to ensure the user never
> sees too many completions. An additional limit is added to
> default_make_symbol_completion_list_break_on, to halt time-consuming
> symbol table expansions.
>
> gdb/ChangeLog:
>
> PR cli/9007
> PR cli/11920
> PR cli/15548
> * common/common-exceptions.h (enum errors)
> <TOO_MANY_COMPLETIONS_ERROR>: New value.
> * completer.h (completion_tracker_t): New typedef.
> (new_completion_tracker): New declaration.
> (make_cleanup_free_completion_tracker): Likewise.
> (maybe_limit_completions): Likewise.
> * completer.c [TUI]: Include tui/tui.h and tui/tui-io.h.
> (max_completions): New static variable.
> (new_completion_tracker): New function.
> (make_cleanup_free_completion_tracker): Likewise.
> (maybe_limit_completions): Likewise.
> (complete_line_internal): Do not generate any completions if
> max_completions = 0. Limit the number of completions if
> max_completions >= 0.
> (line_completion_function): Handle TOO_MANY_COMPLETIONS_ERROR.
> (_initialize_completer): New declaration and function.
> * symtab.c: Include completer.h.
> (completion_tracker): New static variable.
> (completion_list_add_name): Call maybe_limit_completions.
> (default_make_symbol_completion_list_break_on): Maintain
> completion_tracker across calls to completion_list_add_name.
> * NEWS (New Options): Mention set/show max-completions.
>
> gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
>
> * gdb.texinfo (Command Completion): Document new
> "set/show max-completions" option.
OK for the documentation parts.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-27 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-27 13:16 [PATCH 0/3 v2] Abort completion when list becomes large Gary Benson
2014-11-27 13:16 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] Implement completion limiting Gary Benson
2014-11-27 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-12-05 23:54 ` Doug Evans
2014-12-10 12:22 ` Gary Benson
2014-12-10 16:25 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-03 2:09 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-07 8:44 ` Gary Benson
2015-01-09 1:29 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-10 2:32 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-10 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-12 18:50 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-15 15:39 ` Gary Benson
2015-01-23 7:32 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-23 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-23 16:38 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-23 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-23 20:28 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-24 1:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-24 8:50 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-24 14:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-25 15:55 ` Doug Evans
2015-01-25 19:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-27 13:16 ` [PATCH 1/3 v2] Add expansion_notify callback to expand_symtabs_matching Gary Benson
2014-12-05 7:56 ` Doug Evans
2014-11-27 13:16 ` [PATCH 2/3 v2] Interleave completion list building with symbol table expansion Gary Benson
2014-12-05 22:58 ` Doug Evans
2017-01-09 21:19 ` Crash regression for <tab>-completion [Re: [PATCH 2/3 v2] Interleave completion list building with symbol table expansion] Jan Kratochvil
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-11-06 10:50 [PATCH 0/3 v2] Limit tab-completion result when list is large Gary Benson
2014-11-06 10:51 ` [PATCH 3/3 v2] Implement completion limiting Gary Benson
2014-11-06 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-21 10:46 ` Gary Benson
2014-11-24 6:09 ` Doug Evans
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