Debug view receives verbose GDB messages

Kevin Funk kfunk at kde.org
Tue Jul 26 07:05:00 UTC 2016


On Tuesday, July 26, 2016 4:02:42 PM CEST Jeremy Murphy wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm loving KDevelop 5.0 alpha/beta/gamma whatever it is up to.  :)

Awesome!

> Except recently, it started sending verbose GDB output to the Debug view
> (along with the actual program output that I would expect) like so:

> (gdb) 1-gdb-show version
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> 1^done

> (gdb) 2-gdb-set width 0
> 2^done
> 
> ---8<--- ~200 lines of output ---8<---
> 
> (gdb) 129-var-create --thread 1 --frame 0 var113 @ "typename"
> 129^error,msg="-var-create: unable to create variable object"
> (gdb) 130-var-create --thread 1 --frame 0 var114 @ "back_inserter"
> 130^error,msg="-var-create: unable to create variable object"

^ Stuff like this definitely shouldn't be printed to the Debug view as it is 
just the internal communication with GDB via the MI protocol.

@Peifeng: Could you have a look?

Cheers,
Kevin

> It sends the messages when I run debug, obviously, but also when I mouse
> over variables as the last couple of lines are an example of.
> 
> I'm using the latest releases of just about everything, which at the moment
> is GDB 7.11.1, Qt 5.6.1, Frameworks 5.24.0, Plasma 5.7.2, and tip of the
> 5.0 branch for KDevelop and KDevPlatform.
> 
> Is this a known issue or am I the lucky discoverer? I can't recall exactly
> when I first noticed it, sorry, but it must have been recently.
> 
> Thanks, cheers.
> 
> Jeremy


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Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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