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authorPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2021-07-15 10:47:56 +0100
committerPedro Alves <pedro@palves.net>2021-07-15 15:10:59 +0100
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diff --git a/gdb/value.h b/gdb/value.h
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--- a/gdb/value.h
+++ b/gdb/value.h
@@ -782,10 +782,12 @@ class scoped_value_mark
const struct value *m_value;
};
-/* Create a not_lval value with type TYPE_CODE_ARRAY.
+/* Create not_lval value representing a NULL-terminated C string. The
+ resulting value has type TYPE_CODE_ARRAY.
- PTR points to the string data; LEN is the length of the string including the
- NULL terminator. */
+ PTR points to the string data; LEN is number of characters (does
+ not include the NULL terminator). CHAR_TYPE is the character
+ type. */
extern struct value *value_cstring (const char *ptr, ssize_t len,
struct type *char_type);