[Bug python/16286] value.string(length = x) broken for common variable length arrays idiom

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16286

Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Joel Brobecker <brobecker at gnat dot com> ---
For the question asked by asm warrior with unnitialized variables, the problem
is not limited to Python. It's a general issue faced by languages that deal
with variable-sized objects. Eg, in Ada:

type Bla (Length : Integer) is record
   Data : array (1 .. Length) of Integer;
end record;

If you try to read an object of this type before it gets initialized, you can
get surprising results, including the crash  asmwarrior mentions, usually
because the length read is a ridiculously large value.

In Ada, we mitigated the problem by setting an artificial limit ('varsize
limit'). Perhaps it's time to generalize the idea to the rest of GDB?

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