[Bug ada/32413] New: Refactor ada_language::printstr to use generic code

[Bug ada/32413] New: Refactor ada_language::printstr to use generic code

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32413

            Bug ID: 32413
           Summary: Refactor ada_language::printstr to use generic code
           Product: gdb
           Version: HEAD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ada
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: tromey at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

I have a patch I'll be sending soon that changes
ada_language::printstr to special-case UTF-8.
This was needed for the VSS pretty-printers
(see https://github.com/AdaCore/VSS).

Ada should probably respect the encoding in other
cases, though.  And ideally Ada string-printing
would be redone to follow the generic code.

One problem here is that the Ada code in gdb doesn't
really try to define the runtime character sets --
it just assumes they are a superset of ASCII.
So perhaps we'd need to add settings for the "Ada
wide charset" and "Ada wide-wide charset".

Reusing generic_printstr for all Ada string printing
might also be good.  This could be based on this
series that I never got around to rewriting:

https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20220217220547.3874030-1-tom@tromey.com/

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[Bug ada/32413] Refactor ada_language::printstr to use generic code

[tromey at sourceware dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32413

Tom Tromey <tromey at sourceware dot org> changed:

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