From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] gdb/tui: use init_extended_color where possible
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:44:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87qzk3w2d0.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5da7a3fea6997922a87508807efc3cadd119ff7c.1785930494.git.aburgess@redhat.com> (Andrew Burgess's message of "Wed, 5 Aug 2026 12:50:53 +0100")
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com> writes:
Andrew> The motivation for using init_extended_color is slightly less than
Andrew> init_extended_pair. Assuming the terminal supports it the standard
Andrew> init_color API supports up to SHRT_MAX (32767) different colors,
Andrew> switching to init_extended_color removes the SHRT_MAX limit on color
Andrew> indices, allowing us to support the full range of COLORS.
First, I think the patch is fine.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
However I have a question
Andrew> /* We store RGB as 0..255, but curses wants 0..1000. */
Andrew> - if (init_color (next, rgb[0] * 1000 / 255, rgb[1] * 1000 / 255,
Andrew> - rgb[2] * 1000 / 255) == ERR)
Andrew> + short r = rgb[0] * 1000 / 255;
Andrew> + short g = rgb[1] * 1000 / 255;
Andrew> + short b = rgb[2] * 1000 / 255;
Andrew> +
Andrew> + /* If init_extended_pair is not available then we fallback to
Andrew> + using init_pair. However, init_pair can only handle 'short'
Andrew> + color indices so there is no point using init_extended_color
Andrew> + to allow for the generation of longer 'int' color indices. */
Andrew> +#if defined HAVE_INIT_EXTENDED_COLOR && defined HAVE_INIT_EXTENDED_PAIR
Andrew> + if (init_extended_color (next, r, g, b) == ERR)
Andrew> return false;
Andrew> +#else
Andrew> + /* NEXT is an int, but is passed as a short. If COLORS is
Andrew> + more than SHRT_MAX then NEXT will be truncated and end up
Andrew> + redefining a color entry that we don't expect. */
Andrew> + if (next > SHRT_MAX
Andrew> + || init_color (next, r, g, b) == ERR)
Andrew> + return false;
Andrew> +#endif
IIUC init_extended_color allows a bigger range for 'next' but also for
the RGB components. However despite the text above, I think we don't
actually use the bigger RGB range. And, perhaps we don't really care
to, I don't know.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-12 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-21 14:24 [PATCH] " Andrew Burgess
2026-08-05 11:50 ` [PATCHv2] " Andrew Burgess
2026-08-12 19:26 ` Simon Marchi
2026-08-12 19:44 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2026-08-13 9:53 ` Andrew Burgess
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