From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit/Ada] delete ada-lang.c:extract_string and use target_read_string instead
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r5zs9puq.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090416224507.GM7585@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Thu\, 16 Apr 2009 15\:45\:07 -0700")
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
Joel> Yes, it is in ascii. Can I get away without doing a conversion, or
Joel> would it be better if I did? The string just contains a symbol name.
If it is always ascii then it is pretty safe as-is. gdb assumes that
the host execution character set is ascii-compatible in several
places. And, there is no validation or conversion of the character
set used in the debug info. So, this isn't any worse than existing
situations :-)
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-16 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-16 17:19 Joel Brobecker
2009-04-16 22:19 ` Tom Tromey
2009-04-16 22:45 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-04-16 22:49 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-04-16 23:32 ` Joel Brobecker
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