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Re: [PATCH] Escape non-printable chars in dumped strings.
On 12/09/2016 11:00 AM, Richard Biener wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Martin Liška <mliska@suse.cz> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Following patch changes behavior in pretty_print_string, where all non-printable
>> characters are encoded as \x%x. Currently, when some non-printable characters are directly
>> printed to a dump file stream. That makes it complicated to read a dump file for instance
>> via a Python script.
>>
>> Patch can bootstrap on ppc64le-redhat-linux and survives regression tests.
>>
>> Ready to be installed?
>
> Ok. Does ISPRINT ('\') yield true or false? That is, I suppose we
> want to escape that?
You mean '\\', which is already covered by a case:
case '\\':
pp_string (pp, "\\\\");
break;
I'm going to install the patch.
Martin
>
>> Martin