Re: [PATCH] Unbuffer stdout and stderr on windows

Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-16T13:20:48Z

> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 20:33:56 +0800
> From: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
> CC: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>, <brobecker@adacore.com>, Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> However, we didn't have an agreement on what to set for stdout. As you
> posted above, on Win32, stdout can be either full buffered or
> non-buffered. If we change stdout to non-buffered, there are two
> concerns, 1) GDB will slow down, 2) cause troubles to front-end, like Emacs.
>
> Is it useful to reduce the concerns by measuring the slow down and
> testing patched GDB under Emacs?

Not sure such a research will be worth our while.

How about a command-line option to do this, something that was
proposed before? Would people feel less divided about that?