[patch ping] suppress annoying warnings about cygwin1.dbg

Brian Dessent
2007-05-02T15:19:09Z

[ Added gdb-patches@ since the revised patch touches files outside of
gdbtk/. See <http://sourceware.org/ml/insight/2007-q2/msg00016.html>
for context. ]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> > > How about a patch that modifies gdbtk-hooks.c:gdbtk_warning() such that
> > > instead of just blindly punting everything to gdbtk_tcl_warning(), it
> > > first tries to check if stdout has been redirected to a null handle, and
> > > just skip the warning if so? That would let the exiting stuff in
> > > win32-nat.c take care of suppressing these without any regexps.
> >
> > See attached.
>
> Arg, that won't work. Simply checking ui_file_data (gdb_stdout) != NULL
> is no good because even when gdb_stdout is not redirected its data
> member can be NULL. The only reliable way I could figure out to
> determine if the stdout was redirected was to add an interface to
> ui-file.c that checks if both the fputs and write functions were the
> null functions. See attached.

Ping? Comments?

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> gdb/
> 2007-04-18 Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
>
> * ui-file.c (ui_file_isnull): New function.
> * ui-file.h (ui_file_isnull): Add declaration.
>
> gdb/gdbtk/
> 2007-04-18 Brian Dessent <brian@dessent.net>
>
> * generic/gdbtk-hooks.c (gdbtk_warning): Do not process the warning
> if gdb_stdout has been redirected to a null handle.
>