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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, "gdb\@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Collecting strings at tracepoints
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In-Reply-To: <4C191555.5060404@codesourcery.com> (Stan Shebs's message of	"Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:17:57 -0700")
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>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Shebs <stan@codesourcery.com> writes:

Stan> That's right.  Partly because the expedient for string collection
Stan> right now is "*str@40", so it extends a known behavior, and partly
Stan> because '@' is about the only character that isn't already claimed by
Stan> language and/or GDB command syntax.

Not to bikeshed this too much, but another idea would be to extend the
current syntax:

*str @ -1          /* find the \0 */
*str @ { -1, 80 }  /* find the \0, or stop at 80 */

Tom