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Re: patch to accept \t as a character by `strings'


"David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:

|> Below is a patch so that `strings' output matches that of other systems.
|> BSD since 1986/11/24 have defined <tab> to be a printable character (bug
|> report 4.3BSD/ucb/9).  HP-UX (since at least 10.20), Irix (since at least
|> 5.3) also interprets <tab> this way.
|> 
|> 
|> 2000-04-18  David O'Brien  <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
|> 
|> 	* strings.c (isgraphic): Interpret <TAB> as a printable character,
|>     analogous to <SPACE>.
|> 
|> 
|> Index: strings.c
|> ===================================================================
|> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/binutils/strings.c,v
|> retrieving revision 1.5
|> diff -u -r1.5 strings.c
|> --- strings.c	2000/04/07 04:34:50	1.5
|> +++ strings.c	2000/04/19 01:31:10
|> @@ -60,9 +60,9 @@
|>  #include "libiberty.h"
|>  
|>  #ifdef isascii
|> -#define isgraphic(c) (isascii (c) && isprint (c))
|> +#define isgraphic(c) (isascii (c) && (isprint (c) || isblank (c)))

isblank is not part of ISO C.

Andreas.

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