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Re: [RFC] Changes to signed char and unsigned char handling


> > 1.  Make vector types special.  Treat arrays of single byte integers
> > as characters, like before, unless they occur in a vector type.  This
> > is reasonable, but tricky to implement.
> > 
> > It restores the historic behavior for unsigned char and signed char.
> > Only the behavior of vector registers has changed.  You basically
> > never want to print these as strings, but since I had already
> > implemented print/s I kept it.
> 
> Mark, did you want to look at this revised approach?  I think it
> will satisfy everyone; I'd like to include it in 6.7, if so.
> 
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-08/msg00467.html

I had a look at the patch, and it looks fine to me too (Eli already
said so some days ago).

Regarding gdb-6.7, I propose delay a bit more creation of the release
branch, because Mark had some strong objections to the first patch that
went in.  I would also like to have this one in 6.7, and would prefer
to see it applied before the branch is cut. I want to make sure that
any testing of the branch contains that patch.

-- 
Joel


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