Print MI prompt on interrupted command
Joel noticed that if the remote dies unexpectedly during a command --
you can simulate this by using "continue" and then killing gdbserver
-- then the CLI will print a new prompt, but MI will not. Later, we
found out that this was also filed in bugzilla as PR mi/23820.
The output looks something like this:
| (gdb)
| cont
| &"cont\n"
| ~"Continuing.\n"
| ^running
| *running,thread-id="all"
| (gdb)
| [... some output from GDB during program startup...]
| =thread-exited,id="1",group-id="i1"
| =thread-group-exited,id="i1"
| &"Remote connection closed\n"
Now, what about that "(gdb)" in the middle?
That prompt comes from this questionable code in
mi-interp.c:mi_on_resume_1:
/* This is what gdb used to do historically -- printing prompt
even if it cannot actually accept any input. This will be
surely removed for MI3, and may be removed even earlier. */
if (current_ui->prompt_state == PROMPT_BLOCKED)
fputs_unfiltered ("(gdb) \n", mi->raw_stdout);
... which seems like something to remove. But maybe the intent here
is that this prompt is sufficient, and MI clients must be ready to
handle output coming after a prompt. On the other hand, if this code
*is* removed, then nothing would print a prompt in this scenario.
Anyway, the CLI and the TUI handle emitting the prompt here by hooking
into gdb::observers::command_error, but MI doesn't install an observer
here.
This patch adds the missing observer and arranges to show the MI
prompt. Regression tested on x86-64 Fedora 34.
It seems like this area could be improved a bit, by having
start_event_loop call the prompt-displaying code directly, rather than
indirecting through an observer. However, I haven't done this.
Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23820