Re: [Bug mi/28711] gdb closes when displaying structs with long field names in eclipse

[Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>]

* tromey at sourceware dot org via Gdb-prs <gdb-prs@sourceware.org> [2021-12-26 19:06:16 +0000]:

> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28711
> 
> Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> changed:
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> --- Comment #6 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
> (In reply to Andrew Burgess from comment #4)
> 
> > What I wonder instead is, maybe we should change the `new-ui` command. 
> > Currently we allow `new-ui INTERPRETER PATH-TO-PTTY`.  Maybe we should allow
> > something like this too: `new-ui INTERPRETER PATH-TO-INPUT-PIPE
> > PATH-TO-OUTPUT-PIPE PATH-TO-ERROR-PIPE`
> > 
> > If only one path is provided, we open it 3 times for in/out/err.  If three
> > paths are provided then each is opened once.  This would require the front
> > end to then manage three named pipes though.
> > 
> > Maybe named pipes on windows behave differently though...
> 
> We could ask the original author perhaps.

I already reached out to the original patch author asking for any
insights they might have, but given the time of year, I'm not
expecting a reply any time soon.