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To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@br.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [obv] Fix crash in c_get_string
References: <20090414220233.GA9093@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net>
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:43:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20090414220233.GA9093@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Wed\, 15 Apr 2009 00\:02\:33 +0200")
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>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> during a failed string read - as when pretty-printing
Jan> uninitialized std::string - GDB could crash.

Thanks, Jan.

Jan> I have a testcase requiring GDB pretty-printing which is not in
Jan> FSF GDB now so the test should get in later.  Did not check how
Jan> to reproduce it more easily.

I made a note to pull this patch in after the pretty-printing series
goes in.  If you'd rather, though, you can do it :-)

Tom