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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,  Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix uninitialized use of variables.
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3prz5o1ub.fsf@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071020172137.GC28823@lios> (Carlos O'Donell's message of "Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:21:39 -0400")


Carlos O'Donell <carlos at codesourcery.com> writes:
> Index: gdb/remote.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/remote.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.271
> diff -u -p -r1.271 remote.c
> --- gdb/remote.c	8 Oct 2007 12:55:09 -0000	1.271
> +++ gdb/remote.c	18 Oct 2007 16:34:05 -0000
> @@ -1343,7 +1343,8 @@ unpack_varlen_hex (char *buff,	/* packet
>  static char *
>  unpack_nibble (char *buf, int *val)
>  {
> -  ishex (*buf++, val);
> +  if (!ishex (*buf++, val))
> +    error (_("Unpacked nibble does not contain hex characters."));
>    return buf;
>  }

This looks fine to me, although Daniel has thoughts on error handling
in the remote protocol that I don't fully understand.

But the error message is going to be obscure to users.  It should at
least say something about the remote protocol packet being misformed.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-23 23:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-20 18:07 Carlos O'Donell
2007-10-23 23:20 ` Jim Blandy
2007-10-24 17:24   ` Carlos O'Donell
2007-10-24  0:10 ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2007-10-24  4:05   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-24 17:12     ` Jim Blandy
2007-10-24 17:57       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-10-24 17:15   ` Jim Blandy
2007-10-24 18:02   ` Carlos O'Donell
2007-10-24 18:21     ` Jim Blandy
2007-10-26 18:51       ` Carlos O'Donell

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