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[PATCH] Unbuffer stdout and stderr on windows
- From: Yao Qi <yao at codesourcery dot com>
- To: <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 11:06:57 +0800
- Subject: [PATCH] Unbuffer stdout and stderr on windows
Hi,
This patch is to disable the buffering on windows host, because the
error message and gdb prompt come out in different orders, which
causes a lot of test fails.
We call setvbuf this place, because it is a place "before any other
operation is performed". See the doc below:
"The setvbuf() function may be used after the stream pointed to by
stream is associated with an open file but before any other operation
(other than an unsuccessful call to setvbuf()) is performed on the
stream."
It is not the first time this patch show up here. Daniel posted it
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00433.html and Joel
preferred it as the exact same piece of code is in their tree as well
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-06/msg00434.html
Eli wanted to check this patch didn't interfere with Emacs 23 GDB
interface on Windows, which is probably the last question to this
patch. The discussion stopped there. I build native mingw32 gdb
with buffering disabled, and use it with Emacs 24.3 in Windows
cmd.exe. Emacs+GDB behave correctly.
Is it OK?
gdb:
2013-07-22 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* main.c (captured_main): Set stdout and stderr unbuffered on
Windows.
---
gdb/main.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/main.c b/gdb/main.c
index 440094e..7529dc5 100644
--- a/gdb/main.c
+++ b/gdb/main.c
@@ -375,6 +375,13 @@ captured_main (void *data)
saved_command_line[0] = '\0';
instream = stdin;
+#ifdef _WIN32
+ /* A Cygwin ssh session may not look like a terminal to the Windows
+ runtime; ensure unbuffered output. */
+ setvbuf (stdout, NULL, _IONBF, BUFSIZ);
+ setvbuf (stderr, NULL, _IONBF, BUFSIZ);
+#endif
+
gdb_stdout = stdio_fileopen (stdout);
gdb_stderr = stdio_fileopen (stderr);
gdb_stdlog = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */
--
1.7.7.6