the recent GDB has problems running GDB `xbacktrace' on EMACS http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2007-02/msg00252.html
It seems clear why the change was made: On the other hand byte arrays become unreadable if printed as strings. However, it seems that their hope this would not bother anyone was based on an assumption which is inaccurate: I hope nobody uses sign-specification for strings. Which GDB behavior is better is a matter of how often each one is convenient and how often it causes trouble. I don't know enough to have an opinion about that, but if neither one is clearly better overall, it would be best to leave GDB the way it was. _______________________________________________ bug-gdb mailing list bug-gdb@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gdb