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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:28:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Support counted strings and embedded nulls in value.string
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> Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:32:21 +0100
> From: Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> Pending Eli's response, I'll check this patch in.

Sorry, I missed that because you sent the patch as binary attachment.

The patch for the manual is okay, with one comment.  I don't
understand the last sentence in this hunk:

    For C-like languages, a value is a string if it is a pointer to or an
     array of characters or ints.  The string is assumed to be terminated
    -by a zero of the appropriate width.
    +by a zero of the appropriate width.  However if the optional length
    +argument is given, the string will be converted beyond any embedded
    +nulls up to the length specified.

What does it mean ``converted beyond any embedded nulls''?