Re: PATCH: Use getche on Win32

Eli Zaretskii
2005-05-11T06:56:19Z

> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 16:31:28 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>, bug-readline@gnu.org,
> gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
>
> > Well, since we are talking about Readline for GDB, and given the
> > importance of SIGINT in GDB, I'd say at least Ctrl-C should work as
> > expected.
>
> That's a whole different problem; there's no way to read characters
> that will cause proper SIGINT delivery, since the times when GDB cares
> about SIGINT are the times when it is not in readline.

Is that really so? What about a completion attempt that went haywire,
or a too long output to the screen?

> > > I don't mind doing so; I was merely trying to make something useful
> > > available as soon as possible.
> >
> > If it's important that the current CVS snapshots are available ASAP
> > for MinGW users, even though one cannot interrupt the debuggee with
> > Ctrl-C, then I don't mind that you check this into the GDB CVS,
> > provided that it will be followed soon by more patches to take care of
> > the above issues.
>
> I would prefer not to commit patches now that will require followup
> patches

Me neither. But Mark seemed to be saying that he wanted usable GDB as
soon as possible, see above.