Re: [PATCH 5/5] Handle non-ASCII identifiers in Ada

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb-patches
2022-03-01T15:18:31Z

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 07:49:29 -0700
>
> These were in Unicode back in 2001.
>
> Eli> Or maybe we should document what is the
> Eli> oldest version of Python that currently suits the needs?
>
> Most people shouldn't run this script. The output is checked in. And
> if they do and get wildly different results, that will be caught in
> review.
>
> Of course, it won't really matter, because you can't really write an Ada
> program -- at least, not using GNAT -- that uses anything after 2001
> anyway. This covers all the Python versions that are in normal use.
>
> For example Python 2.7, the oldest one I have around (and for which gdb
> is going to drop support soon anyway):
>
> >>> import unicodedata
> >>> unicodedata.unidata_version
> '5.2.0'
>
> This version of the data comes from 2009, plenty new enough.

Ok, I guess there's no real problem, then.

Thanks.