From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Changes to signed char and unsigned char handling
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uejhrvrv9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070825011757.GA15793@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:17:57 -0400)
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:17:57 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> Here's option 1 instead:
>
> 1. Make vector types special. Treat arrays of single byte integers
> as characters, like before, unless they occur in a vector type. This
> is reasonable, but tricky to implement.
>
> It restores the historic behavior for unsigned char and signed char.
> Only the behavior of vector registers has changed. You basically
> never want to print these as strings, but since I had already
> implemented print/s I kept it.
>
> Comments? Mark, is this better?
The patches for documentation are okay with me.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-25 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-05 13:54 Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-07-06 10:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-06 21:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-07-07 10:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-07 17:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-07-06 23:26 ` Nick Roberts
2007-07-06 23:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-25 1:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-25 10:19 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-09-03 17:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-09-04 13:58 ` Joel Brobecker
2007-09-04 22:40 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-09-05 0:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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