From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15135 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2007 13:58:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 15125 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Sep 2007 13:58:14 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:58:10 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C68742AA90A for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:58:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id F2MaNtkt1h4E for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:58:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC2F2AA6C6 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:58:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 74CE5E7B58; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 06:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:58:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Changes to signed char and unsigned char handling Message-ID: <20070904135808.GA3579@adacore.com> References: <20070705135402.GA4300@caradoc.them.org> <20070825011757.GA15793@caradoc.them.org> <20070903175312.GM12440@caradoc.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070903175312.GM12440@caradoc.them.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-09/txt/msg00044.txt.bz2 > > 1. Make vector types special. Treat arrays of single byte integers > > as characters, like before, unless they occur in a vector type. This > > is reasonable, but tricky to implement. > > > > It restores the historic behavior for unsigned char and signed char. > > Only the behavior of vector registers has changed. You basically > > never want to print these as strings, but since I had already > > implemented print/s I kept it. > > Mark, did you want to look at this revised approach? I think it > will satisfy everyone; I'd like to include it in 6.7, if so. > > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-08/msg00467.html I had a look at the patch, and it looks fine to me too (Eli already said so some days ago). Regarding gdb-6.7, I propose delay a bit more creation of the release branch, because Mark had some strong objections to the first patch that went in. I would also like to have this one in 6.7, and would prefer to see it applied before the branch is cut. I want to make sure that any testing of the branch contains that patch. -- Joel