Re: [commit] Ada-valprint.c const tweaks

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at gnu dot org>]

   Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:24:28 -0500
   From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>

   Mark Kettenis wrote:
   >    Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 14:19:48 -0500
   >    From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
   > 
   >    FYI,
   >    Andrew
   > 
   > This patch must be wrong!  In C a string has type 'char *' and the
   > type of a single character is 'int'.  If your compiler is warning
   > about incompatible types here, it's got a bug.  This proves that
   > mindless replacement of 'char' with 'bfd_byte' is a stupid thing to
   > do.

   I've attached exibit A, the full patch that I'm merging.

   If you look carefully at printstr, you'll see that it's receiving in raw 
   byte buffer _buffer_ and a _length_; not a null terminated "char *" 
   string.  That language code, such as scheme, print it using %s is well 
   "somebody elses problem".

Ah I see.  The code in c-lang.c:c_printstr() is extracting bytes as
integers.  So sorry, yes you're right.  I still think we should use
'void *' instead of 'bfd_byte *' though.

Mark