From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6234 invoked by alias); 8 Mar 2007 19:51:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 6207 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Mar 2007 19:51:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from hq.tensilica.com (HELO mailapp.tensilica.com) (65.205.227.29) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:50:54 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mailapp.tensilica.com with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1HPOdY-0005gR-Q8; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:50:52 -0800 Received: from mailapp.tensilica.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailapp [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 21656-03; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:50:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from maxim_fc5.hq.tensilica.com ([192.168.11.68]) by mailapp.tensilica.com with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1HPOdY-0005gL-Dj; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:50:52 -0800 Message-ID: <45F0691C.1060505@hq.tensilica.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:51:00 -0000 From: Maxim Grigoriev User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070102) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Grigoriev , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Progress indicator on loading References: <45F05D25.2010405@hq.tensilica.com> <20070308191048.GA24158@caradoc.them.org> <45F061A2.7040407@hq.tensilica.com> <20070308192836.GA25250@caradoc.them.org> In-Reply-To: <20070308192836.GA25250@caradoc.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-03/txt/msg00092.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:18:58AM -0800, Maxim Grigoriev wrote: > >>> The MI -target-download already does >>> report progress, based on write size. >>> >> My colleagues want to have similar feature for the "load" command. >> If it's reasonable to implement it could be an extra option to this command. >> > > It should be very easy to add, based on the same hook MI already uses. > I guess the only question is how you're planning to display progress - > GDB's output layer isn't really set up to write ASCII art :-) > Yes, ASCII art is tricky. I can play with this and try to find a reasonable solution. If I succeed I'll let you know. Thanks for your valuable input on this, -- Maxim