From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9420 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2007 10:19:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 9375 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Aug 2007 10:19:31 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (HELO nitzan.inter.net.il) (213.8.233.22) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:19:26 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-237-6.inter.net.il [84.228.237.6]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id HPX68320 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:16:37 +0300 (IDT) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:19:00 -0000 Message-Id: From: Eli Zaretskii To: Daniel Jacobowitz CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20070825011757.GA15793@caradoc.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:17:57 -0400) Subject: Re: [RFC] Changes to signed char and unsigned char handling Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <20070705135402.GA4300@caradoc.them.org> <20070825011757.GA15793@caradoc.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-08/txt/msg00469.txt.bz2 > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:17:57 -0400 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > 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.