This was suggested by Simon during a code review of this package upstream.
The upside is that this makes the function's API more natural and C++.
The downside is an extra malloc, which might be the reason why we went
for using a unique_xmalloc_ptr in the first place. Since this function
is not expected to be called frequently, the API improvement might be
worth the performance impact.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gmp-utils.h (gmp_string_printf): Rename from gmp_string_asprintf.
Change return type to std::string. Update all callers.
* gmp-utils.c (gmp_string_printf): Likewise.
This API was motivated by a number of reasons:
- GMP's API does not handle "long long" and "unsigned long long",
so using LONGEST and ULONGEST is not straightforward;
- Automate the need to initialize GMP objects before use, and
clear them when no longer used.
However, this API grew also to help with similar matter such
as formatting to a string, and also reading/writing fixed-point
values from byte buffers.
Dedicated unit testing is also added.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* gmp-utils.h, gmp-utils.h: New file.
* unittests/gmp-utils-selftests.c: New file.
* Makefile.in (SUBDIR_UNITTESTS_SRCS): Add
unittests/gmp-utils-selftests.c.
(COMMON_SFILES) Add gmp-utils.c.
(HFILES_NO_SRCDIR): Add gmp-utils.h.
