Re: [PATCH/RFA] Sync window sizes between Readline and GDB

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 08:41:13PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> The attached makes sure GDB's and Readline's idea of the screen size
> are the same.  It gets rid of some rather platform-specific code and
> uses similar code in Readline instead.  This fixes the problems I was
> seeing in completion.exp.
> 
> I don't think we should check this in on the branch, since there is a
> certain risk involved that things break for certain hosts.  However, I
> think making use of the code in Readline is a good thing since that
> code is defenitely better tested than our code.
> 
> OK for mainline?

This certainly looks like a good idea to me.  I tried it on a GNU/Linux
system that was showing similar problems, and it fixed those as well.

It introduces new warnings in utils.c though.  There's one call to
set_width above its declaration and you removed the prototype.


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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer