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authorTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2022-02-03 10:42:07 -0700
committerTom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>2022-03-07 07:52:59 -0700
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Handle non-ASCII identifiers in Ada
Ada allows non-ASCII identifiers, and GNAT supports several such encodings. This patch adds the corresponding support to gdb. GNAT encodes non-ASCII characters using special symbol names. For character sets like Latin-1, where all characters are a single byte, it uses a "U" followed by the hex for the character. So, for example, thorn would be encoded as "Ufe" (0xFE being lower case thorn). For wider characters, despite what the manual says (it claims Shift-JIS and EUC can be used), in practice recent versions only support Unicode. Here, characters in the base plane are represented using "Wxxxx" and characters outside the base plane using "WWxxxxxxxx". GNAT has some further quirks here. Ada is case-insensitive, and GNAT emits symbols that have been case-folded. For characters in ASCII, and for all characters in non-Unicode character sets, lower case is used. For Unicode, however, characters that fit in a single byte are converted to lower case, but all others are converted to upper case. Furthermore, there is a bug in GNAT where two symbols that differ only in the case of "Y WITH DIAERESIS" (and potentially others, I did not check exhaustively) can be used in one program. I chose to omit handling this case from gdb, on the theory that it is hard to figure out the logic, and anyway if the bug is ever fixed, we'll regret having a heuristic. This patch introduces a new "ada source-charset" setting. It defaults to Latin-1, as that is GNAT's default. This setting controls how "U" characters are decoded -- W/WW are always handled as UTF-32. The ada_tag_name_from_tsd change is needed because this function will read memory from the inferior and interpret it -- and this caused an encoding failure on PPC when running a test that tries to read uninitialized memory. This patch implements its own UTF-32-based case folder. This avoids host platform quirks, and is relatively simple. A short Python program to generate the case-folding table is included. It simply relies on whatever version of Unicode is used by the host Python, which seems basically acceptable. Test cases for UTF-8, Latin-1, and Latin-3 are included. This exercises most of the new code paths, aside from Y WITH DIAERESIS as noted above.
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@@ -111,6 +111,12 @@ show style disassembler enabled
package is available, then, when this setting is on, disassembler
output will have styling applied.
+set ada source-charset
+show ada source-charset
+ Set the character set encoding that is assumed for Ada symbols. Valid
+ values for this follow the values that can be passed to the GNAT
+ compiler via the '-gnati' option. The default is ISO-8859-1.
+
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