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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:59:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [python][patch] Add GDB Parameters functionality
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> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:05:35 +0100
> From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > Can you give me a couple of examples of this "translation"?  Then I
> > could suggest some simple explanation.
> 
> The simplest example I can think of is escaping octal to print
> characters.

Thanks, but I'm sure this feature was not introduced for such trivial
uses.  Can you give a slightly more useful example?  Is this similar
to C escapes in strings, such as \f, \n, etc., for example?