A have had situation where a unfiltered output (done using
fputs_unfiltered) ended up triggering pagination. The backtrace for this was:
...
#24 0x000055839377ee4e in check_async_event_handlers () at ../../gdb/async-event.c:335
#25 0x0000558394b67b57 in gdb_do_one_event () at ../../gdbsupport/event-loop.cc:216
#26 0x0000558394587454 in gdb_readline_wrapper (prompt=0x7ffd907712d0 "--Type <RET> for more, q to quit, c to continue without paging--") at ../../gdb/top.c:1148
#27 0x0000558394707270 in prompt_for_continue () at ../../gdb/utils.c:1438
#28 0x00005583947088b3 in fputs_maybe_filtered (linebuffer=0x60c0000f4000 " [...quite big message...]", stream=0x60300028e9d0, filter=0) at ../../gdb/utils.c:1752
#29 0x0000558394708e57 in fputs_unfiltered (linebuffer=0x60c0000f4000 " [...quite big message...]", stream=0x60300028e9d0) at ../../gdb/utils.c:1811
...
This comes from what appears to be a oversight in fputs_maybe_filtered. This
function has a FILTER parameter which if true makes the function pause after
every screenful (i.e. triggers pagination).
The filter parameter is correctly used to guard the first place where
prompt_for_continue. There is a second place in the function which can call
prompt_for_continue, but is currently unguarded. I believe that this is an
oversight, this patch fixes that.
Tested on Linux-x86_64, no regression observed.
Change-Id: Iad8ffd50a87cf20077500878e2564b5a7dc81ece
/* Possible new page. Note that
PAGINATION_DISABLED_FOR_COMMAND might be set during
this loop, so we must continue to check it here. */
- if (lines_printed >= lines_per_page - 1
+ if (filter
+ && lines_printed >= lines_per_page - 1
&& !pagination_disabled_for_command)
{
prompt_for_continue ();