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Re: [RFC] Changes to signed char and unsigned char handling
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:58:08 -0700
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Changes to signed char and unsigned char handling
- References: <20070705135402.GA4300@caradoc.them.org> <20070825011757.GA15793@caradoc.them.org> <20070903175312.GM12440@caradoc.them.org>
> > 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