Re: [PATCH] gdb: print size of downloaded debuginfod binary

Tom Tromey
2020-12-10T19:22:02Z

Tom> This updated patch fixes both problems, the latter by printing the %
Tom> progress on its own line (which is cleared by a final '\r' after
Tom> reaching 100%, in order not to waste lines on this).

A long time ago I had patches to show a progress bar when reading DWARF.

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2017-April/139882.html

Maybe this could be resurrected.
I've occasionally thought of adding this to the TUI as well, say briefly
overwriting the status bar with a progress meter.

Tom