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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
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Subject: Re: [Doc]tracepoint: change *$esp@300 to *(unsigned char *)$esp@300
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:30:03 +0800
>> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>>
>> If "unsigned char" is too big, what about *(char *)$esp@300?
> 
> "char" is better, but not because of the length.
> 
> However, what I really meant is to ask whether *$esp should indeed
> refuse to work, or is that a bug?

I imagine it must have worked at one time...