This is the mail archive of the
gdb-prs@sourceware.org
mailing list for the GDB project.
[Bug python/16286] value.string(length = x) broken for common variable length arrays idiom
- From: "tromey at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: gdb-prs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 14:35:51 +0000
- Subject: [Bug python/16286] value.string(length = x) broken for common variable length arrays idiom
- Auto-submitted: auto-generated
- References: <bug-16286-4717 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16286
Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
CC| |tromey at redhat dot com
--- Comment #7 from Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to dje from comment #4)
> I recognize the problem, but error checking and clipping of the length needs
> to be done in python before invoking value.string().
I'd rather we not advise users to do this.
Instead gdb should do the throttling.
lazy_string is intended to help with this problem;
also perhaps some other fix is possible in the value printing code.
--
You are receiving this mail because:
You are on the CC list for the bug.