bug#44173: 28.0.50; gdb-mi mangles strings with octal escapes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:31:47 +0200
> Cc: 44173@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Let's see what a value/result parser can do and work from there.

Whatever.  I don't understand your answers and don't see how they
resolve the issues I raised.  I guess we will have to see who is right
when the code is in place.  Too bad.