[Bug exp/18603] New: print L'a' triggers inadequate error message: "No type named wchar_t."

[Bug exp/18603] New: print L'a' triggers inadequate error message: "No type named wchar_t."

[joehtg at joehtg dot co.at]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18603

            Bug ID: 18603
           Summary: print L'a'  triggers inadequate error message: "No
                    type named wchar_t."
           Product: gdb
           Version: 7.7
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: exp
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: joehtg at joehtg dot co.at
  Target Milestone: ---

print wide literal, e.g. print L'a', causes error message
No type named wchar_t.
when no executable file is loaded or when the executable does not have wchar_t
variables. 
gdb should get sizeof(wchar_t) from target-wide-charset
This would be useful for Debugging of programs using ICU or OCI (in UTF-16
mode) under Linux.
I'd like to use the command
print (wchar_t*)utext
for UChar * utext
if the program does not use native 32-bit wchar_t

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[Bug exp/18603] print L'a' triggers inadequate error message: "No type named wchar_t."

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18603

--- Comment #2 from Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> ---
wchar_t is defined for C++, see language_arch_info in c-lang.c.
It seems to me this could just be lifted to the C language
as well.

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[Bug exp/18603] print L'a' triggers inadequate error message: "No type named wchar_t."

[hikari at noyu dot me]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18603

hikari_no_yume <hikari at noyu dot me> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from hikari_no_yume <hikari at noyu dot me> ---
(In reply to Tom Tromey from comment #2)
> wchar_t is defined for C++, see language_arch_info in c-lang.c.
> It seems to me this could just be lifted to the C language
> as well.

Would symbols from the executable still be able to override it? If so then this
seems like a good idea.

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[Bug exp/18603] print L'a' triggers inadequate error message: "No type named wchar_t."

[sam at gentoo dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18603

Sam James <sam at gentoo dot org> changed:

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