Re: wchar_t encoding?

[Neil Booth <neil%daikokuya.co.uk@localhost>]

Paul Koning wrote:-

> So I now see three options.
> 
> 1. Abandon all hope -- leaving GDB 7 seriously busted on NetBSD.
> 2. Use UCS-4 as the wchar_t encoding in NetBSD, ignoring the fact that in 
> some cases that isn't what is used.  That fixes NetBSD for most cases.  It 
> opens an opportunity for others to fix the remaining cases.
> 3. Tell people to use libiconv with GDB 7 on NetBSD.  Given how it does the 
> conversion, I'm not at all convinced that this is any different from option 2.
> 
> My inclination is to use option 2, i.e., submit a patch to gdb to do that 
> with the argument that it fixes the problem for most cases.

I agree.

Neil.