From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>,
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
mathieu lacage <Mathieu.Lacage@sophia.inria.fr>,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Signed/unsigned character arrays are not strings
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 17:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E42969.1030007@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17892.4014.160191.285423@kahikatea.snap.net.nz>
Nick Roberts wrote:
> That answers the question that we are really asking and justifies the patch.
Not necessarily. First it is only a claim, without documentation,
second, any incompatible change seems basically problematic. I
prefer to avoid this incompatible change, it seems like it would
be a surprise to a substantial number of users. For sure the use
of unsigned char for character data is pretty common.
>
> > We can document how to produce string output more
> > clearly in the manual, perhaps?
I would instead document more clearly how to produce the integer
output.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-27 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-24 16:13 Nick Roberts
2007-02-24 20:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-24 20:53 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-24 21:07 ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-02-25 8:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-25 19:54 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-25 21:07 ` mathieu lacage
2007-02-26 0:45 ` Jan Kratochvil
2007-02-27 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 9:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-27 12:02 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-27 17:06 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2007-02-27 18:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-27 21:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 22:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-27 22:14 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-28 0:47 ` Paul Koning
2007-02-28 1:14 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-28 1:59 ` Jim Blandy
2007-02-28 5:26 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-28 14:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-03-01 0:43 ` Jim Blandy
2007-03-01 0:54 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-27 21:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 22:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-10 21:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-28 13:05 pkoning
2007-03-01 11:01 ` Mark Kettenis
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