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Re: [patch] Printing of character vectors

From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
Cc: Ken Werner <ken at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:15:26 -0700
Subject: Re: [patch] Printing of character vectors
References: <201006251037.29862.ken@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <m363164vv7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

> I do not know.  The test case was written that way, but that isn't
> necessarily indicative of intent.
> 
> Is it ever useful?

This is a bit of a guess, but I would tend to agree that vectors should
be displayed as arrays. If one wants to display the vector as a string,
it should be possible to do so using x/s.

-- 
Joel

References:
- [patch] Printing of character vectors
  - From: Ken Werner
- Re: [patch] Printing of character vectors
  - From: Tom Tromey

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