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If the user implements a TUI window in Python, and this window responds to GDB events and then redraws its window contents then there is currently an edge case which can lead to problems. The Python API documentation suggests that calling methods like erase or write on a TUI window (from Python code) will raise an exception if the window is not valid. And the description for is_valid says: This method returns True when this window is valid. When the user changes the TUI layout, windows no longer visible in the new layout will be destroyed. At this point, the gdb.TuiWindow will no longer be valid, and methods (and attributes) other than is_valid will throw an exception. From this I, as a user, would expect that if I did 'tui disable' to switch back to CLI mode, then the window would no longer be valid. However, this is not the case. When the TUI is disabled the windows in the TUI are not deleted, they are simply hidden. As such, currently, the is_valid method continues to return true. This means that if the users Python code does something like: def event_handler (e): global tui_window_object if tui_window_object->is_valid (): tui_window_object->erase () tui_window_object->write ("Hello World") gdb.events.stop.connect (event_handler) Then when a stop event arrives GDB will try to draw the TUI window, even when the TUI is disabled. This exposes two bugs. First, is_valid should be returning false in this case, second, if the user forgot to add the is_valid call, then I believe the erase and write calls should be throwing an exception (when the TUI is disabled). The solution to both of these issues is I think bound together, as it depends on having a working 'is_valid' check. There's a rogue assert added into tui-layout.c as part of this commit. While working on this commit I managed to break GDB such that TUI_CMD_WIN was nullptr, this was causing GDB to abort. I'm leaving the assert in as it might help people catch issues in the future. This patch is inspired by the work done here: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2020-December/174338.html gdb/ChangeLog: * python/py-tui.c (gdbpy_tui_window) <is_valid>: New member function. (REQUIRE_WINDOW): Call is_valid member function. (REQUIRE_WINDOW_FOR_SETTER): New define. (gdbpy_tui_is_valid): Call is_valid member function. (gdbpy_tui_set_title): Call REQUIRE_WINDOW_FOR_SETTER instead. * tui/tui-data.h (struct tui_win_info) <is_visible>: Check tui_active too. * tui/tui-layout.c (tui_apply_current_layout): Add an assert. * tui/tui.c (tui_enable): Move setting of tui_active earlier in the function. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * python.texinfo (TUI Windows In Python): Extend description of TuiWindow.is_valid. gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gdb.python/tui-window-disabled.c: New file. * gdb.python/tui-window-disabled.exp: New file. * gdb.python/tui-window-disabled.py: New file. |
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README for GNU development tools This directory contains various GNU compilers, assemblers, linkers, debuggers, etc., plus their support routines, definitions, and documentation. If you are receiving this as part of a GDB release, see the file gdb/README. If with a binutils release, see binutils/README; if with a libg++ release, see libg++/README, etc. That'll give you info about this package -- supported targets, how to use it, how to report bugs, etc. It is now possible to automatically configure and build a variety of tools with one command. To build all of the tools contained herein, run the ``configure'' script here, e.g.: ./configure make To install them (by default in /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/lib, etc), then do: make install (If the configure script can't determine your type of computer, give it the name as an argument, for instance ``./configure sun4''. You can use the script ``config.sub'' to test whether a name is recognized; if it is, config.sub translates it to a triplet specifying CPU, vendor, and OS.) If you have more than one compiler on your system, it is often best to explicitly set CC in the environment before running configure, and to also set CC when running make. For example (assuming sh/bash/ksh): CC=gcc ./configure make A similar example using csh: setenv CC gcc ./configure make Much of the code and documentation enclosed is copyright by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the file COPYING or COPYING.LIB in the various directories, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files. REPORTING BUGS: Again, see gdb/README, binutils/README, etc., for info on where and how to report problems.