Change target_read_string API

This simplifies the target_read_string API a bit.

Note that some code was using safe_strerror on the error codes
returned by target_read_string.  It seems to me that this is incorrect
(if it was ever correct, it must have been quite a long time ago).

gdb/ChangeLog
2020-06-15  Tom Tromey  <tromey@adacore.com>

	* windows-nat.c (windows_nat::handle_output_debug_string):
	Update.
	(windows_nat::handle_ms_vc_exception): Update.
	* target.h (target_read_string): Change API.
	* target.c (target_read_string): Change API.
	* solib-svr4.c (open_symbol_file_object, svr4_read_so_list):
	Update.
	* solib-frv.c (frv_current_sos): Update.
	* solib-dsbt.c (dsbt_current_sos): Update.
	* solib-darwin.c (darwin_current_sos): Update.
	* linux-thread-db.c (inferior_has_bug): Update.
	* expprint.c (print_subexp_standard): Update.
	* ada-lang.c (ada_main_name, ada_tag_name_from_tsd)
	(ada_exception_message_1): Update.
This commit is contained in:
Tom Tromey
2020-06-15 06:28:09 -06:00
parent a5d871ddaf
commit 6692031743
11 changed files with 76 additions and 91 deletions

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@ -804,28 +804,24 @@ target_xfer_status_to_string (enum target_xfer_status status)
};
/* target_read_string -- read a null terminated string, up to LEN bytes,
from MEMADDR in target. Set *ERRNOP to the errno code, or 0 if successful.
Set *STRING to a pointer to malloc'd memory containing the data; the caller
is responsible for freeing it. Return the number of bytes successfully
read. */
/* See target.h. */
int
target_read_string (CORE_ADDR memaddr, gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> *string,
int len, int *errnop)
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char>
target_read_string (CORE_ADDR memaddr, int len, int *bytes_read)
{
int bytes_read;
gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<gdb_byte> buffer;
int ignore;
if (bytes_read == nullptr)
bytes_read = &ignore;
/* Note that the endian-ness does not matter here. */
int errcode = read_string (memaddr, -1, 1, len, BFD_ENDIAN_LITTLE,
&buffer, &bytes_read);
&buffer, bytes_read);
if (errcode != 0)
return {};
if (errnop != nullptr)
*errnop = errcode;
string->reset ((char *) buffer.release ());
return bytes_read;
return gdb::unique_xmalloc_ptr<char> ((char *) buffer.release ());
}
struct target_section_table *