Re: [PATCH v3] [gdb/remote] Use sevenbit_strings == true in escape_buffer

[Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>]

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de> writes:

Tom> With Tcl 9.0, something (dejagnu/expect/gdb testsuite infrastructure)
Tom> has problems with gdb IO containing non-utf-8 chars.

Tom> Having said that, I don't think having chars like 'ü' in the debug output is
Tom> particularly helpful.

Tom> Fix this by forcing sevenbit_strings to true in escape_buffer, getting us
Tom> instead:
Tom> ...

Looks good, thanks.

Tom> Note that this output is ambiguous, because:
Tom> - one char '\0', and
Tom> - 4 chars '\\' '0' '0' '0'
Tom> are printed the same: \000, but I guess that's a pre-existing problem.

That's a bit surprising since I would have thought that '\' would also
be backslash-quoted.

Anyway this is ok.
Approved-By: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>

Tom