From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA 3/3] Special case NULL when using printf's %s format
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 21:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi484mx0.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5843def6-8004-4103-188c-50125c7b3d9f@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:25:32 +0000")
Pedro> Then again, I don't think it's likely that programs map
Pedro> strings at 0 (I think it's more like interrupt vectors), so for %s,
Pedro> it's likely that nobody would miss printing 0 as a string.
Another option would be to do a try-catch and only print "(null)" on
failure, if the pointer is 0.
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-16 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-15 20:50 [RFA 0/3] a few minor printf fixes Tom Tromey
2018-02-15 20:50 ` [RFA 2/3] Allow - in %p for printf Tom Tromey
2018-02-16 11:31 ` Alan Hayward
2018-02-27 3:50 ` Tom Tromey
2018-02-15 20:50 ` [RFA 1/3] Add usage to printf command Tom Tromey
[not found] ` <9E6EDAE0-C429-4581-9CAA-FF7B88796D40@arm.com>
2018-02-16 21:58 ` Tom Tromey
2018-02-16 23:09 ` Simon Marchi
2018-02-19 9:16 ` Alan Hayward
2018-02-15 20:50 ` [RFA 3/3] Special case NULL when using printf's %s format Tom Tromey
[not found] ` <6abda67a-ad87-ebc7-e0d4-ab60e7e4cbc6@redhat.com>
2018-02-16 12:25 ` Pedro Alves
2018-02-16 21:58 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2018-03-14 15:44 ` [RFA 0/3] a few minor printf fixes Tom Tromey
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