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From: Michael Stahl <mstahl@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: gdb 8.0 "lazy_string" exception "Length is larger than array size"
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On 26.09.2017 12:30, Pedro Alves wrote:

> If you want to ignore the array's declared length, I think you can
> always decay 'buffer' to a pointer and work with that, and then GDB
> won't have a length to validate.

thanks, replacing
 ['buffer']
with
 ['buffer'].address
in the pretty printer avoids the exception!