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Re: [PATCH] Force array coercion in c_get_string

From: Tom Tromey <tromey at adacore dot com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey at adacore dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 12:52:03 -0600
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Force array coercion in c_get_string
References: <20190425181740.18062-1-tromey@adacore.com> <6d0c9915-cb2d-b7c2-1336-9347c90d22e6@redhat.com>

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> So with the patch, we coerce the array to inferior memory, in order
Pedro> to read its contents back from the inferior?  Is that right?
Pedro> Why not skip the detour and save the memory allocation in the inferior?

Yeah, that's weird, isn't it.

I think I was confused and thinking that value_coerce_to_target would
not bother for things already in memory.

I'll look at a different approach.

Tom

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