On 12/11/20 6:51 PM, Tom de Vries wrote:
> On 12/10/20 8:21 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> Tom> This updated patch fixes both problems, the latter by printing the %
>> Tom> progress on its own line (which is cleared by a final '\r' after
>> Tom> reaching 100%, in order not to waste lines on this).
>>
>> A long time ago I had patches to show a progress bar when reading DWARF.
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2017-April/139882.html
>>
>> Maybe this could be resurrected.
>> I've occasionally thought of adding this to the TUI as well, say briefly
>> overwriting the status bar with a progress meter.
> 
> I've taken a look, and think that this code is more in line with gdb cli
> setup, so I've reimplemented on top of this.
> 
> Here is the first patch, adding the progress meter infrastructure
> factored out from your patch.

And here's the reimplemented patch.

I've test-driven it a bit on tumbleweed, and behaviour looks ok.

Currently testing on x86_64-linux.

Thanks,
- Tom