Re: [PATCH] [gdb/tui] Show regs when switching to regs layout

[Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>]

On 11/24/23 11:27, Tom de Vries wrote:
> When starting gdb in CLI mode, running to main and switching into the TUI regs
> layout:
> ...
> $ gdb -q a.out -ex start -ex "layout regs"
> ...
> we get:
> ...
> +---------------------------------+
> |                                 |
> | [ Register Values Unavailable ] |
> |                                 |
> +---------------------------------+
> ...
> 
> Fix this by updating the TUI_DATA_WIN in tui_apply_current_layout.
> 

I've submitted a v2 ( 
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2023-November/204507.html ) 
that handles this in rerender instead.

Thanks,
- Tom

> Tested on x86_64-linux.
> 
> PR tui/28600
> Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28600
> ---
>   gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/regs.exp | 10 ++++++----
>   gdb/tui/tui-layout.c           |  6 ++++++
>   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/regs.exp b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/regs.exp
> index 520f6ddba96..0be99625b9f 100644
> --- a/gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/regs.exp
> +++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.tui/regs.exp
> @@ -41,10 +41,12 @@ Term::command "layout regs"
>   Term::check_box "register box" 0 0 80 8
>   Term::check_box "source box in regs layout" 0 7 80 8
>   
> -set text [Term::get_line 1]
> -# Just check for any register window content at all.
> -Term::check_contents "any register contents" "\\|.*\[^ \].*\\|"
> -
> +# The current frame is main, check that registers are available.
> +set re_reg_vals_unavailable \
> +    [string_to_regexp {[ Register Values Unavailable ]}]
> +gdb_assert \
> +    { ![Term::check_region_contents_p 0 0 80 8 $re_reg_vals_unavailable] } \
> +    "Register values available"
>   
>   # Check that we can successfully cause the register window to appear
>   # using the 'tui reg next' and 'tui reg prev' commands.
> diff --git a/gdb/tui/tui-layout.c b/gdb/tui/tui-layout.c
> index 85f4991c769..813f8f93b57 100644
> --- a/gdb/tui/tui-layout.c
> +++ b/gdb/tui/tui-layout.c
> @@ -112,6 +112,12 @@ tui_apply_current_layout (bool preserve_cmd_win_size_p)
>     if (gdbarch == nullptr && TUI_DISASM_WIN != nullptr)
>       tui_get_begin_asm_address (&gdbarch, &addr);
>     tui_update_source_windows_with_addr (gdbarch, addr);
> +
> +  if (TUI_DATA_WIN != nullptr && has_stack_frames ())
> +    {
> +      frame_info_ptr fi = get_selected_frame (NULL);
> +      TUI_DATA_WIN->check_register_values (fi);
> +    }
>   }
>   
>   /* See tui-layout.  */
> 
> base-commit: 2ec31e54dff83130fbde8d2f674469078ee203d5