This is the mail archive of the
gdb-patches@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
Re: [PATCH v1 02/36] Guile extension language: doc additions
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ludo at gnu dot org, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:58:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 02/36] Guile extension language: doc additions
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <52b9da59 dot 64ab440a dot 0b0b dot 7e1c at mx dot google dot com> <83ha9w68av dot fsf at gnu dot org> <87sit4kb1t dot fsf at gnu dot org> <83eh4ow78t dot fsf at gnu dot org> <87k3egez8e dot fsf at gnu dot org> <CAP9bCMTR8Dv7ejLWs0yqeFLja8-fck08kvHHWiJdS09WAG5nbw at mail dot gmail dot com> <87mwitovvh dot fsf at gnu dot org> <CAP9bCMS_GndeCGpG7cPkbb9ptL9yO=CKJWRhsA6Obfxb1wCSJg at mail dot gmail dot com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 12:55:22 -0800
> From: Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> > If the functionality is that only null-terminated strings are supported,
> > then the text is fin
>
> Correction: Either a null-terminated string or a string with the
> specified length passed in (i.e., not present in the string itself) is
> supported.
>
> > Eli was suggesting supporting non-null-terminated strings as well, but
> > indeed, that can always be added later.
>
> They are supported, but the caller has to provide the length.
Then let's say that explicitly. The text as is can be interpreted as
meaning that such strings aren't supported.