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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:03:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: [python] Pretty-printers and addressprint
From: Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
To: Paul Koning <Paul_Koning@dell.com>
Cc: "Elmenthaler, Jens" <jens.elmenthaler@verigy.com>, gdb@sourceware.org,         archer@sourceware.org, dje@google.com
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On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Paul Koning <Paul_Koning@dell.com> wrote:

>> Unfortunately I frequently deal with non-ascii strings, and the
>> problem just wouldn't go away :-(
>
> My test (without gdb, I don't have that installed yet) is inconclusive
> but I think using repr() will cure that too.

AFAICT, in GDB repr(value) is a no-op, and the end result of returning
repr(value) from the pretty-printer is exactly the same as that of
returning the value itself:

  $4 = 0x4007e0 "this is x\201\202\203\204"

Should repr(value) do something different?

Thanks,
-- 
Paul Pluzhnikov