From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM>
To: mrs@windriver.com (mike stump)
Cc: jbuck@synopsys.COM, rth@redhat.com, florian@edamail.fishkill.ibm.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, guillaume.thouvenin@polymtl.ca, zack@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: fdump-ast-original and strg:
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:12:00 -0000
Message-ID: <200112010112.RAA14387@atrus.synopsys.com>
References: <200112010056.QAA17559@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg01668.html
Message-ID: <20011130171200.VyIO7vbT6MLEXazMeekPT1-ieS5SZmkK5gjQUpXRnh4@z>

I wrote:

> > > if the option of simply calling an existing string-emitting function
> > > exists [it should be used].

From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
> > Unfortunately there is no such function.  That stuff is 
> > replicated 99 times in various header files.

Mike Stump writes:
> output_quoted_string in toplev.c, should be half way reasonable.

Well, it only treats '"' and '\\' specially (by prepending a \ ), all
other characters (including control characters) go straight to output.

If the only purpose of the patch is to make it possible to read the file
back in, I suppose it could be good enough, but I think that the dump
should look reasonable for the traditional

int main() {
	printf("Hello, world\n");
}

and output_quoted_string will write

"Hello, world
"