Last lines of compilation output are not printed

[per1234]

Describe the problem

🐛 The last lines of compilation output are not shown in Output panel

To reproduce

1. Select File > Preferences... from the Arduino IDE menus.
2. Uncheck the box next to Show verbose output during > ☑ compile.
   ⓘ The issue occurs with the verbose output as well. This is done only to produce more simple output for the demo.
3. Click the OK button.
4. Select Tools > Board > Arduino AVR Boards > Arduino Uno from the Arduino IDE menus.
   ⓘ The issue is not specific to this board. A board selection is specified only to ensure the output described here in the demo will be consistent with that seen by those who are reproducing it.
5. Select Sketch > Verify/Compile from the Arduino IDE menus.
6. Wait for the compilation process to finish.
7. If the issue does not occur, repeat the process from step 5 until it does occur.

🐛 The memory usage output is not shown:

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Compilation complete.

The output should be:

Sketch uses 444 bytes (1%) of program storage space. Maximum is 32256 bytes.
Global variables use 9 bytes (0%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2039 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.

--------------------------
Compilation complete.

Expected behavior

All lines of compilation output

Arduino IDE version

2.0.0-rc7-snapshot-94ceefd

Operating system

Windows, Linux

Operating system version

Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04

Additional context

I bisected the issue to 4c62431 (does not occur when using the build for a804766).

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The number of missing lines varies. This is easier to observe with verbose compilation output enabled. Sometimes the line showing the avr-size command that would be expected immediately before the memory usage lines is printed:

[...]

"C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Arduino15\\packages\\arduino\\tools\\avr-gcc\\7.3.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino7/bin/avr-objcopy" -O ihex -R .eeprom "C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\arduino-sketch-13926962AEE9C72B0EB120253E6668CD/sketch_jun17a.ino.elf" "C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\arduino-sketch-13926962AEE9C72B0EB120253E6668CD/sketch_jun17a.ino.hex"

"C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Arduino15\\packages\\arduino\\tools\\avr-gcc\\7.3.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino7/bin/avr-size" -A "C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\arduino-sketch-13926962AEE9C72B0EB120253E6668CD/sketch_jun17a.ino.elf"

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Compilation complete.

Other times it is not:

[...]

"C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Arduino15\\packages\\arduino\\tools\\avr-gcc\\7.3.0-atmel3.6.1-arduino7/bin/avr-objcopy" -O ihex -R .eeprom "C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\arduino-sketch-13926962AEE9C72B0EB120253E6668CD/sketch_jun17a.ino.elf" "C:\\Users\\per\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\arduino-sketch-13926962AEE9C72B0EB120253E6668CD/sketch_jun17a.ino.hex"


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Compilation complete.

More rarely, one or two of the memory usage lines are shown.

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Originally reported at https://forum.arduino.cc/t/memory-usage-display-after-compile/1003909

Issue checklist

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• I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
• My report contains all necessary details

[per1234]

A report on the forum revealed that the problem still occurs:

https://forum.arduino.cc/t/2-0-rc8-nightly-20220627-ram-usage-not-displayed/1007235

I can reproduce this. What I observe is that, even using the build from the time of the fix (a715da3), the last line of the compilation output:

Global variables use 9 bytes (0%) of dynamic memory, leaving 2039 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 2048 bytes.

is sometimes not printed, but the problem occurs very infrequently (approximately 3% of compilations). Something changed at a54d7c8. Using that build and all after that (up to the current state at 2.0.0-rc8), it is much more frequent (approximately 30% of compilations).

[davegarthsimpson]

This appears CLI related, when the last line is cut off it is not received at all by the IDE;

I actually get the line cut off around 30-70% of the time with the latest CLI.

I get around 1-3% if I use a build of the CLI omitting the change in this PR;

I believe this "rate limiting" was actually deemed not essential anyway.

@cmaglie

off the back of this issue I've opened a PR which further improves the output panel buffer mechanism, but it does not solve this issue.

p.s. a7edca6 can be ignored with regards to this issue as the associated branch was deleted.

[per1234]

Since it turned out to be a bug in Arduino CLI, I'm going to close this as resolved by the fix: arduino/arduino-cli#1787

The IDE will continue to produce the fault, but that is only because it is still using the version of Arduino CLI that had the bug. The fix will propagate to Arduino IDE as a matter of course on the next update of the Arduino CLI dependency, without any special action required in this code base.

Thanks Dave for your excellent work on identifying the source of the fault.