2011-03-02 Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>

	* utils.c (parse_escape): Escape the escape char.

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index d3534bf..f03926f 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2011-03-02  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@vmware.com>
 
+       * utils.c (parse_escape): Escape the escape char.
+
        * python/py-inferior.c (build_inferior_list): Error out if 
        PyList_Append fails.
        (gdbpy_inferiors): Error out if build_inferior_list fails.

diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c
index 4668515..46b4612 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/utils.c
+++ b/gdb/utils.c
@@ -2001,10 +2001,9 @@ parse_escape (struct gdbarch *gdbarch, char **string_ptr)
     }
 
   if (!host_char_to_target (gdbarch, c, &target_char))
-    error
-      ("The escape sequence `\%c' is equivalent to plain `%c', which"
-       " has no equivalent\n" "in the `%s' character set.", c, c,
-       target_charset (gdbarch));
+    error ("The escape sequence `\\%c' is equivalent to plain `%c',"
+          " which has no equivalent\nin the `%s' character set.",
+          c, c, target_charset (gdbarch));
   return target_char;
 }
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