2009-10-23 Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / gdb / charset.c

diff --git a/gdb/charset.c b/gdb/charset.c
index f5281eda1698906d03e7f26909561542029039ef..4bc8894f15dcee75c8bfd1af18a6e56a099a23aa 100644 (file)
--- a/gdb/charset.c
+++ b/gdb/charset.c
@@ -818,8 +818,9 @@ _initialize_charset (void)
 #ifdef HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
   auto_host_charset_name = nl_langinfo (CODESET);
   /* Solaris will return `646' here -- but the Solaris iconv then
-     does not accept this.  */
-  if (!strcmp (auto_host_charset_name, "646"))
+     does not accept this.  Darwin (and maybe FreeBSD) may return "" here,
+     which GNU libiconv doesn't like (infinite loop).  */
+  if (!strcmp (auto_host_charset_name, "646") || !*auto_host_charset_name)
     auto_host_charset_name = "ASCII";
   target_charset_name = auto_host_charset_name;