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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Using UTF-8 as host charset
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mx7uvji9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5526F1.2010003@gmail.com> (Mathias Kunter's message of "Mon,	05 Mar 2012 21:49:53 +0100")

>>>>> "Mathias" == Mathias Kunter <mathiaskunter@gmail.com> writes:

Mathias> As long as GDB doesn't crash and still prints ASCII strings correctly,
Mathias> it won't concern us.

I think the failure mode would be something more like gdb making the
wrong decision about whether a character is "printable".  That is, I
think you could conceivably see weird output in some scenario.

I don't have an example at hand.  Maybe the concern is even just
theoretical.

Mathias> If GDB is generally stable with using UTF-8 as host charset,
Mathias> we'd do so.

I have run it that way every day for multiple years.

One problem is that if you have a gdb version that uses the phony iconv,
then it cannot handle UTF-8.  You can detect this at startup, though.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-05 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-03 16:34 Mathias Kunter
2012-03-05 16:13 ` Paul_Koning
2012-03-05 18:09   ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 18:11     ` Paul_Koning
2012-03-05 21:04       ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 16:41 ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 16:44   ` Pedro Alves
2012-03-05 20:51   ` Mathias Kunter
2012-03-05 21:13     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-03-05 21:34       ` Mathias Kunter
2012-03-05 21:41         ` Tom Tromey
2012-03-05 22:23           ` Mathias Kunter

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