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Re: [PATCH] Print vector registers in natural format, not hex


I think it's definitely a misfeature. It's would be different if GDB were skipping all the trailing nulls, and not just the final null ... but either way, I think it's the wrong behavior. An array is an array, not a string, and printing:

$1 = "abcd\000\000\000\000\000"

instead of

$1 = "abcd\000\000\000\000\000\000"

for 'char buf[10] = "hello"'

just seems much more confusing than useful.

On Friday, October 18, 2002, at 07:20 PM, Elena Zannoni wrote:

And you haven't noticed this comment in the testfile, I take it :-) I
discovered this while writing the vector support, but didn't fix it. I
don't know that it actually needs to be fixed. It's a feature, not a
bug, one could argue.

# Note: in LE case, the char array is printed WITHOUT the last character.
# Gdb treats the terminating null char in the array like the terminating
# null char in a string and doesn't print it. This is not a failure, but
# the way gdb works.

Elena






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