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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: gdb/mi or python interface for front end
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 23:37:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22TCzdrEmzuDAT7wynJCSVrfQC2wcc3U_7dB3FEb2hCtqg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130903012929.GA4379@bob-VirtualBox>

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net> wrote:
> OK. I'm curious if anyone knows if the MI protocol supports NUL
> character bytes in it's output. I'm designing the protocol layer and
> it would be convient to know if GDB transmits NUL character bytes
> while sending output. (It's probably possible when printing a string
> array?) An example would be awesome if so.

I looked into this.
IWBN if this were documented, otherwise I have to go on what I find
and I certainly could have missed something.
E.g., I see mi_console_raw_packet calling fputstrn_unfiltered
which calls printchar which escapes control characters.
I believe the answer is MI output will *never* contain the NUL char,
if present it will be quoted as \000.
[Again, I would be wrong, so heads up.  And corrections are most welcome.]


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-03 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-23  0:51 Bob Rossi
2013-08-23 14:03 ` Tom Tromey
2013-09-03  1:29   ` Bob Rossi
2013-09-03 21:25     ` Phil Muldoon
2013-09-03 23:37     ` Doug Evans [this message]
2013-08-23 14:07 ` Joel Brobecker

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