Improves gtest's failure messages. In particulars, char pointers and

char arrays are not escapped properly.

src/gtest.cc

@@ -818,17 +818,6 @@ TimeInMillis GetTimeInMillis() {
 
 // class String
 
-// Returns the input enclosed in double quotes if it's not NULL;
-// otherwise returns "(null)".  For example, "\"Hello\"" is returned
-// for input "Hello".
-//
-// This is useful for printing a C string in the syntax of a literal.
-//
-// Known issue: escape sequences are not handled yet.
-String String::ShowCStringQuoted(const char* c_str) {
-  return c_str ? String::Format("\"%s\"", c_str) : String("(null)");
-}
-
 // Copies at most length characters from str into a newly-allocated
 // piece of memory of size length+1.  The memory is allocated with new[].
 // A terminating null byte is written to the memory, and a pointer to it
@@ -1169,8 +1158,8 @@ AssertionResult CmpHelperSTREQ(const char* expected_expression,
 
   return EqFailure(expected_expression,
                    actual_expression,
-                   String::ShowCStringQuoted(expected),
-                   String::ShowCStringQuoted(actual),
+                   PrintToString(expected),
+                   PrintToString(actual),
                    false);
 }
 
@@ -1185,8 +1174,8 @@ AssertionResult CmpHelperSTRCASEEQ(const char* expected_expression,
 
   return EqFailure(expected_expression,
                    actual_expression,
-                   String::ShowCStringQuoted(expected),
-                   String::ShowCStringQuoted(actual),
+                   PrintToString(expected),
+                   PrintToString(actual),
                    true);
 }
 
@@ -1534,15 +1523,6 @@ String String::ShowWideCString(const wchar_t * wide_c_str) {
   return String(internal::WideStringToUtf8(wide_c_str, -1).c_str());
 }
 
-// Similar to ShowWideCString(), except that this function encloses
-// the converted string in double quotes.
-String String::ShowWideCStringQuoted(const wchar_t* wide_c_str) {
-  if (wide_c_str == NULL) return String("(null)");
-
-  return String::Format("L\"%s\"",
-                        String::ShowWideCString(wide_c_str).c_str());
-}
-
 // Compares two wide C strings.  Returns true iff they have the same
 // content.
 //
@@ -1568,8 +1548,8 @@ AssertionResult CmpHelperSTREQ(const char* expected_expression,
 
   return EqFailure(expected_expression,
                    actual_expression,
-                   String::ShowWideCStringQuoted(expected),
-                   String::ShowWideCStringQuoted(actual),
+                   PrintToString(expected),
+                   PrintToString(actual),
                    false);
 }
 
@@ -1584,8 +1564,8 @@ AssertionResult CmpHelperSTRNE(const char* s1_expression,
 
   return AssertionFailure() << "Expected: (" << s1_expression << ") != ("
                             << s2_expression << "), actual: "
-                            << String::ShowWideCStringQuoted(s1)
-                            << " vs " << String::ShowWideCStringQuoted(s2);
+                            << PrintToString(s1)
+                            << " vs " << PrintToString(s2);
 }
 
 // Compares two C strings, ignoring case.  Returns true iff they have