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Re: gdb support for wide char
>>>>> "Yifan" == Yifan Wang <heavenstar@gmail.com> writes:
Yifan> and now i am working on utf8 which is not fixed length character.
Yifan> The solution rely on the glibc functions, eg.mbstowcs(), iconv(), to
Yifan> support wide character.
Yifan> I dont know whether this solution is good enough, because it
Yifan> does not support other programming language and it rely on the
Yifan> glibc functions.
Is it calling these functions in the inferior?
If so, then I think it would be preferable to use iconv in gdb, and
not call any inferior functions. This approach has several
advantages: it works with core files, it works with other languages,
and (due to the existence of libiconv) it is more portable.
If not, I think I am not understanding something.
Tom