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Re: [PATCH v1 02/36] Guile extension language: doc additions
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ludo at gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 19:34:53 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 02/36] Guile extension language: doc additions
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> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 09:19:45 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>,
> "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> For C-like languages, a value is a string if it is a pointer to or an
> array of characters or ints of type @code{wchar_t}, @code{char16_t},
> or @code{char32_t}. The string is assumed to be terminated
> by a zero of the appropriate width. However if the optional length
> argument is given, the string will be converted to that given length,
> and will include any embedded zeros that the string may contain.
The only problem with this text is that it seems to cover _only_
C-like languages. It says nothing about the other languages.
How about this:
For C-like languages, a value is a string if it is a pointer to or an
array of characters or ints of type @code{wchar_t}, @code{char16_t},
or @code{char32_t}. For other languages ... [say here how string
values are distinguished in other languages]. If the string is
terminated by a zero of the appropriate width, it will be converted up
to that zero. For strings that are not zero-terminated (which
includes strings in non C-like languages), you must specify the length
for conversion.