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Re: PATCH: PR tui/2173: Arrow keys no longer works in breakpoint command list
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Chet Ramey <chet dot ramey at case dot edu>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:15:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: PR tui/2173: Arrow keys no longer works in breakpoint command list
- References: <18019.18081.448928.93993@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070604010633.GA927@caradoc.them.org> <20070626131336.GA8960@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 03:13:37PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> The regression happened as the patch was very complex:
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-cvs/2007-01/msg00022.html
>
> The synchronous readline() call has no asynchronous counterpart in libreadline.
> Any asynchronous readline() emulation on top of the current libreadline API may
> work but it is hard to make it precisely backward compatible.
I've already posted a fix for this that doesn't involve changing
readline, FYI.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery