Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/14/16 6:47 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:

> FYI, this is probably doing to break (at least) gdb against system 
> readline.  gdb relies on accessing a few private readline symbols...  :-/
> 
> E.g.:
> 
> tui/tui-io.c:437:  extern int _rl_echoing_p;
> completer.c:1677:  extern int _rl_complete_mark_directories;
> completer.c:1770:extern int _rl_completion_prefix_display_length;
> completer.c:1771:extern int _rl_print_completions_horizontally;
> 
> Unless/until someone fixes these and adds the missing public APIs
> to readline, 

These aren't exactly the result of `missing public APIs'.  echoing_p is
a saved value indicating whether or not the terminal flags readline
inherits include ECHO -- something an application can easily check for
itself.

The others are values for settable variables and should be retrieved
using rl_variable_value (variable_name).  Since it returns a string,
you can use the public macro RL_BOOLEAN_VARIABLE_VALUE to turn it into
an int.

Bash doesn't use any _rl_ readline symbols, so I know it can be done.

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