Make TUI resizing tests more robust

As Sergio pointed out, the TUI resizing tests are flaky.  Debugging
this showed three main problems.

1. expect's "stty" command processes its arguments one-by-one.  So,
rather than requesting a single resize, it sends two separate resize
requests (one for rows and one for columns).  This means gdb sees two
SIGWINCH signals and resizes the terminal twice.

I consider this a bug in expect, but I couldn't readily see how to
report a bug; and anyway the fix wouldn't propagate very quickly.

This patch works around this problem by explicitly doing two separate
resizes (so it will be robust if expect ever does change); and then by
waiting for each resize to complete before continuing.

2. gdb uses curses to drive the console rendering.  Currently the test
suite looks for terminal text insertion sequences to decide when a
command has completed.  However, it turns out that, sometimes, curses
can output things in non-obvious ways.  I didn't debug into curses but
I guess this can happen due to output optimizations.  No matter the
reason, sometimes the current approach of only tracking text
insertions is not enough to detect that gdb has finished rendering.

This patch fixes this problem by arranging to detect the termination
output after any curses command, not just insertion.

3. Detecting when a resize has completed is tricky.  In fact, I could
not find a way to reliably do this.

This patch fixes this problem by adding a special maint
"tui-resize-message" setting to gdb.  When this is enabled, gdb will
print a message after each SIGWINCH has been fully processed.  The
test suite enables this mode and then waits for the message in order
to know when control can be returned to the calling test.

This patch also adds a timeout, to avoid the situation where the
terminal code fails to notice a change for some reason.  This lets the
test at least try to continue.

gdb/ChangeLog
2019-11-12  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>

	* tui/tui-win.c (resize_message): New global.
	(show_tui_resize_message): New function.
	(tui_async_resize_screen): Print message if requested.
	(_initialize_tui_win): Add tui-resize-message setting.
	* NEWS: Add entry for new commands.

gdb/doc/ChangeLog
2019-11-12  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>

	* gdb.texinfo (Maintenance Commands): Document new command.

gdb/testsuite/ChangeLog
2019-11-12  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>

	* lib/tuiterm.exp (_accept): Add wait_for parameter.  Check output
	after any command.  Expect prompt after WAIT_FOR is seen.
	(enter_tui): Enable resize messages.
	(command): Expect command in output.
	(get_line): Avoid error when cursor appears to be off-screen.
	(dump_screen): Include screen size in title.
	(_do_resize): New proc, from "resize".
	(resize): Rewrite.  Do resize in two steps.
	* gdb.tui/empty.exp (layouts): Fix entries.
	(check_boxes): Remove xfail.
	(check_text): Dump screen on failure.

Change-Id: I420e0259cb99b21adcd28f671b99161eefa7a51d

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 96ea666..b0f5447 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -154,6 +154,12 @@ maint show test-settings KIND
   A set of commands used by the testsuite for exercising the settings
   infrastructure.
 
+maint set tui-resize-message [on|off]
+maint show tui-resize-message
+  Control whether GDB prints a message each time the terminal is
+  resized when in TUI mode.  This is primarily useful for testing the
+  TUI.
+
 set print frame-info [short-location|location|location-and-address
                         |source-and-location|source-line|auto]
 show print frame-info