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While working on PRs tui/30337 and cli/30346 I came across various notions of
width in gdb, as reported by gdb, readline, curses and the environment
variables.

As for gdb, readline and the environment variables, the way things work
is:
- Gdb asks readline to detect screen size,
- readline sets the actual screen size in the environment variables
  COLUMNS and LINES,
- readline reports back a screen size to gdb, which may have one column
  less than the actual screen size, to deal with lack of auto-wrap.
  This becomes gdb's notion of screen size (in other words the point where
  we can expect the gdb command line to wrap),
- Gdb then explicitly sets readline's screen size, which readline itself may
  adjust to deal with lack of auto-wrap.  This becomes readlines notion
  of screen size (well, internally the unadjusted one, but it'll report back
  the adjusted one).

Add a command "maint info screen" that prints these notions, both for width
and height.

For TERM=xterm we have:
...
$ TERM=xterm gdb -ex "maint info screen"
Number of characters gdb thinks are in a line is 118.
Number of characters readline reports are in a line is 118.
Number of characters curses thinks are in a line is 118.
Number of characters environment thinks are in a line is 118 (COLUMNS).
Number of lines gdb thinks are in a page is 27.
Number of lines readline reports are in a page is 27.
Number of lines curses thinks are in a page is 27.
Number of lines environment thinks are in a page is 27 (LINES).
...

And for TERM=ansi:
...
$ TERM=ansi gdb -ex "maint info screen"
Number of characters gdb thinks are in a line is 117.
Number of characters readline reports are in a line is 116.
Number of characters curses thinks are in a line is 118.
Number of characters environment thinks are in a line is 118 (COLUMNS).
Number of lines gdb thinks are in a page is 27.
Number of lines readline reports are in a page is 27.
Number of lines curses thinks are in a page is 27.
Number of lines environment thinks are in a page is 27 (LINES).
...

[ The fact that we have "characters readline reports are in a line is 116" is
is due to gdb making readline adjust twice for the lack of auto-wrap, this is
PR cli/30346.

Likewise we can detect tui/30337 by doing a resize in TUI mode and doing
"maint info screen":
...
Number of characters characters curses thinks are in a line is 110.
Number of characters environment thinks are in a line is 111 (COLUMNS). ]

And for TERM=ansi, with width and heigth set to 0:
...
Number of characters gdb thinks are in a line is 4294967295 (unlimited).
Number of characters readline reports are in a line is 32766 (unlimited - 1).
Number of characters curses thinks are in a line is 118.
Number of characters environment thinks are in a line is 118 (COLUMNS).
Number of lines gdb thinks are in a page is 4294967295 (unlimited).
Number of lines readline reports are in a page is 32767 (unlimited).
Number of lines curses thinks are in a page is 27.
Number of lines environment thinks are in a page is 27 (LINES).
...

[ Note that when doing a resize by say maximizing or de-maximizing a terminal,
all reported values are updated, except for curses when not in TUI mode.

Maybe that means there's a bug.  If not, then maybe we should not print
the curses lines unless in TUI mode, or annotate those lines such that it's
clear that the values may be not up-to-date. ]

I'd like to use this command in the regression test for PR cli/30346.

Tested on x86_64-linux.

Reviewed-By: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Reviewed-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
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Expand Up @@ -41363,6 +41363,13 @@ This option is @samp{on} by default for supported architectures.
This option is useful for debugging @value{GDBN}'s use of the Pygments
library when @value{GDBN} is built for an architecture that supports
styling with the builtin disassembler

@kindex maint info screen
@cindex show screen characteristics
@item maint info screen
Print various characteristics of the screen, such as various notions
of width and height.

@kindex maint space
@cindex memory used by commands
@item maint space @var{value}
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70 changes: 68 additions & 2 deletions gdb/utils.c
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Expand Up @@ -1200,6 +1200,15 @@ set_batch_flag_and_restore_page_info::~set_batch_flag_and_restore_page_info ()
set_width ();
}

/* An approximation of SQRT(INT_MAX) that is:
- cheap to calculate,
- guaranteed to be smaller than SQRT(INT_MAX), such that
sqrt_int_max * sqrt_int_max doesn't overflow, and
- "close enough" to SQRT(INT_MAX), for instance for INT_MAX == 2147483647,
SQRT(INT_MAX) is ~46341 and sqrt_int_max == 32767. */

static const int sqrt_int_max = INT_MAX >> (sizeof (int) * 8 / 2);

/* Set the screen size based on LINES_PER_PAGE and CHARS_PER_LINE. */

static void
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overflow in rl_set_screen_size, which multiplies rows and columns
to compute the number of characters on the screen. */

const int sqrt_int_max = INT_MAX >> (sizeof (int) * 8 / 2);

if (rows <= 0 || rows > sqrt_int_max)
{
rows = sqrt_int_max;
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set_width ();
}

/* Implement "maint info screen". */

static void
maintenance_info_screen (const char *args, int from_tty)

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make[2]: Entering directory '/home/Work/binutils-gdb/build/gdb'
  CXX    utils.o
../../gdb/utils.c: In function ‘void maintenance_info_screen(const char*, int)’:
../../gdb/utils.c:1310:14: error: ‘COLS’ was not declared in this scope
 1310 |              COLS);
      |              ^~~~
../../gdb/utils.c:1331:15: error: ‘LINES’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘LONGEST’?
 1331 |               LINES);
      |               ^~~~~
      |               LONGEST
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1920: utils.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/Work/binutils-gdb/build/gdb'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:14587: all-gdb] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/Work/binutils-gdb/build'
make: *** [Makefile:1009: all] Error 2

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On 4/26/23 15:28, MirceaAurelian wrote: |make[2]: Entering directory '/home/Work/binutils-gdb/build/gdb' CXX utils.o ../../gdb/utils.c: In function ‘void maintenance_info_screen(const char*, int)’: ../../gdb/utils.c:1310:14: error: ‘COLS’ was not declared in this scope 1310 | COLS); | ^~~~ ../../gdb/utils.c:1331:15: error: ‘LINES’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘LONGEST’? 1331 | LINES); | ^~~~~ | LONGEST make[2]: *** [Makefile:1920: utils.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/Work/binutils-gdb/build/gdb' make[1]: *** [Makefile:14587: all-gdb] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/Work/binutils-gdb/build' make: *** [Makefile:1009: all] Error 2 | —
Hi, I've filed this ( https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30391 ) PR to track this. Can you share with me here, or in the PR how I can reproduce this? Thanks, - Tom

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Hello,
Tried the steps described at https://wiki.osdev.org/GCC_Cross-Compiler#Preparation
However, the build would complain about missing GMP and MPFR and I got them from here https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/contrib/download_prerequisites:

For GMP:

mkdir (path to GMP dir from gcc)/build && cd (path to GMP dir from gcc)/build
../configure --target=$TARGET --prefix="$PREFIX" --with-sysroot --disable-nls --disable-werror
make
make install

For MPFR:

mkdir (path to MPFR dir from gcc)/build && cd (path to MPFR dir from gcc)/build
../configure --target=$TARGET --prefix="$PREFIX" --with-sysroot --disable-nls --disable-werror --with-gmp=$PREFIX/
make
make install

And for binutils-gdb:

mkdir (path to binutils-gdb)/build && cd (path to binutils-gdb)/build
../configure --target=$TARGET --prefix="$PREFIX" --with-sysroot --disable-nls --disable-werror --with-gmp=$PREFIX/ --with-mpfr=$PREFIX/
make

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Host is x86_64-linux-gnu and target x86_64-redhat-linux

{
int rows, cols;
rl_get_screen_size (&rows, &cols);

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of characters gdb thinks "
"are in a line is %u%s.\n"),
chars_per_line,
chars_per_line == UINT_MAX ? " (unlimited)" : "");

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of characters readline reports "
"are in a line is %d%s.\n"),
cols,
(cols == sqrt_int_max
? " (unlimited)"
: (cols == sqrt_int_max - 1
? " (unlimited - 1)"
: "")));

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of characters curses thinks "
"are in a line is %d.\n"),
COLS);

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of characters environment thinks "
"are in a line is %s (COLUMNS).\n"),
getenv ("COLUMNS"));

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of lines gdb thinks are in a page is %u%s.\n"),
lines_per_page,
lines_per_page == UINT_MAX ? " (unlimited)" : "");

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of lines readline reports "
"are in a page is %d%s.\n"),
rows,
rows == sqrt_int_max ? " (unlimited)" : "");

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of lines curses thinks "
"are in a page is %d.\n"),
LINES);

gdb_printf (gdb_stdout,
_("Number of lines environment thinks "
"are in a page is %s (LINES).\n"),
getenv ("LINES"));
}

void
pager_file::emit_style_escape (const ui_file_style &style)
{
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add_internal_problem_command (&internal_warning_problem);
add_internal_problem_command (&demangler_warning_problem);

add_cmd ("screen", class_maintenance, &maintenance_info_screen,
_("Show screen characteristics."), &maintenanceinfolist);

#if GDB_SELF_TEST
selftests::register_test ("gdb_realpath", gdb_realpath_tests);
selftests::register_test ("gdb_argv_array_view", gdb_argv_as_array_view_test);
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