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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
References: <20090416171914.GM7557@adacore.com> 	<m3zlegb5uk.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20090416224507.GM7585@adacore.com>
From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Reply-To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:49:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20090416224507.GM7585@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Thu\, 16 Apr 2009 15\:45\:07 -0700")
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>>>>> "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