Re: wchar_t encoding?

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.