[PATCH] Add Rust support to source highlighting
Tom Tromey
tom@tromey.com
Fri Jun 28 14:12:00 GMT 2019
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> writes:
Tom> Currently, no release of GNU Source Highlight supports Rust. However,
Tom> I've checked in a patch to do so there, and I plan to make a new
Tom> release sometime this summer.
Tom> This patch prepares gdb for that by adding support for Rust to the
Tom> source highlighting code.
Tom> Because Source Highlight will throw an exception if the language is
Tom> unrecognized, this also changes gdb to ignore exceptions here. This
Tom> will cause gdb to fall back to un-highlighted source text.
Tom> Tested with the current and development versions of Source Highlight.
This patch works ok on Fedora 28, but on Fedora 29 it causes gdb to
crash.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the patch, so I guess this is
a Fedora bug somehow. I will see if I can write a test case and file
it.
Meanwhile I think this patch should not go in :-(
Tom
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