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From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: "Vladimir Prus" <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] zero-terminate result of target_read_alloc
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <24758.192.87.1.22.1153221922.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607181356.16071.vladimir@codesourcery.com>

>
>  This patch makes result of target_read_alloc zero-terminated.
>  The point is that often the object is not allowed to contain embedded
>  zeros,
>  and working with zero-terminated strings is much easier.
>
>  OK?

This is wrong.  Either the terminating nul is part of the object you're
reading or it is not.  GDB shouldn't at its own.

>
>  - Volodya
>
>  2006-07-18  Vladimir Prus  <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
>
>  	* target.c (target_read_alloc): Zero-terminate result.
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-18 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-18  9:56 Vladimir Prus
2006-07-18 11:25 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-07-18 11:33   ` Vladimir Prus
2006-07-18 12:34   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-18 13:15     ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-18 13:39       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-18 13:51         ` Vladimir Prus
2006-07-18 19:51           ` Jim Blandy
2006-07-24  4:09   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-24 21:41     ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-24 22:00       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-26 21:53         ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-26 22:25           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-26 22:36             ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-27 21:25               ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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