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


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)))
 #else
-#define isgraphic(c) (isprint (c))
+#define isgraphic(c) (isprint (c) || (c) == '\t')
 #endif
 
 #ifndef errno

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