output formats bug?

Chris Zankel
2004-02-06T19:23:48Z

GDB seems to be stuck with the constant char output format
once that was used:

GNU gdb 2004-02-02-cvs
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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db
library "/lib/i686/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) x/c main
0x804830c : 85 'U'
(gdb) x/w main
0x804830c : 85 'U'
(gdb)

(This is not a new bug, it seems to be there for a long time)

-- Chris