gdb: remove skip_quoted and skip_quoted_chars
The function skip_quoted_chars (completer.c) is only used by
skip_quoted (also completer.c), so could be made static. The function
skip_quoted just calls directly to skip_quoted_chars but fills in some
default arguments.
The function skip_quoted is only used by the Pascal expression parser,
and is only used in one place.
The skip_quoted_chars function skips a single string; it either looks
for a string between matching quotes, or for a string up to a word
break character.
However, given how the Pascal expression parser calls this function,
we know that the first character will always be a single quote, in
which case skip_quoted_chars will looks for a string between matching
single quotes.
The skip_quoted_chars doesn't do any escaped character handling, it
will just stop at the next single quote character.
In this commit I propose to remove skip_quoted and skip_quoted_chars,
and replace these with a smaller function pascal_skip_string which
I've placed in p-exp.y. This new function only skips a string between
matching single quotes, which is exactly the use case that we need.
The benefit of this change is to remove (some) code duplication. It
feels like skip_quoted is similar in some ways to
extract_string_maybe_quoted, however, there are some differences;
skip_quoted uses the quotes and word break characters from the
completion engine which extract_string_maybe_quoted does not.
However, I'm currently working on improving filename completion, one
part of this is that I'm looking at allowing filenames to be quoted
with single or double quotes, while the default string quoting in
GDB (for expressions) can only use single quotes. If I do end up
allowing single and double quotes in some cases, but we retain the
single quotes only for expressions then skip_quoted starts to become a
problem, should it accept both quote types, or only one?
But given how skip_quoted is used, I can avoid worrying about this by
simply removing skip_quoted.
The Pascal tests do still pass. The code that called skip_quoted is
called at least once in the Pascal tests (adding an abort() call
causes gdb.pascal/types.exp to fail), but I doubt the testing is
extensive. Not sure how widely used GDB for Pascal actually is
though.
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