From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24438 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2007 01:14:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 24427 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Feb 2007 01:14:36 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:14:30 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (189.60.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.60.189]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C935A3D94B6; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:14:26 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 0FEC84F6E0; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:14:24 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17892.55151.798585.950439@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:26:00 -0000 To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Signed/unsigned character arrays are not strings In-Reply-To: References: <17887.62990.937672.281975@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20070224161315.GA27534@caradoc.them.org> <17888.39894.136355.447008@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <1172390381.2584.18.camel@mathieu> <20070225195350.GA12811@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20070226004457.GA9926@caradoc.them.org> <17892.4014.160191.285423@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <45E42969.1030007@adacore.com> <20070227131442.GA20718@caradoc.them.org> <20070227215316.GA26262@caradoc.them.org> <200702272211.l1RMBVvI028239@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.94.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00291.txt.bz2 > > Because of the way C works, heuristics about what's textual and what's > > numeric are inevitable here. Whether or not you like the one I'm > > suggesting, we should definitely consolidate the heuristic in one > > place, so it's consistent. > > And what I really want to know is, when I read this thread in Gmail, > why does Google offer me an ad for "Lingerie in Leather"? Because of it's high textual content? -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob