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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Speed up "gdb -tui" output
From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
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On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:00 AM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> Do we need to do gdb_flush (gdb_stdout) if c == '\n'?
>
> Normally in curses line buffering doesn't make any sense.
> One paints the window and then does a refresh.
> We want to add scrolling of the command line window on
> top of that, but if the intent is for that to be handled by
> gdb's standard set height mechanism (which could use
> some TLC w.r.t. TUI), then the screen will be refreshed
> at the "Type <return> to continue, ..." prompt.
> I don't off hand know if TUI tries to give the user the
> impression of scrolling if the user sets the height
> to be larger than the physical command line window.
> My impression is it doesn't.
> And therefore, I think we don't need to do any call to
> gdb_flush here.  Could be missing something though.

Well, there is unfiltered output which doesn't
go through pagination.
Fun fun fun.