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Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:53:00 -0000
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
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To: Hui Zhu <hui_zhu@mentor.com>, gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix ptype.exp fail in MIPS
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On 05/13/2014 05:09 AM, Hui Zhu wrote:
> ptype $pc
> type = int32_t
> (gdb) FAIL: gdb.base/ptype.exp: ptype $pc
> This is because the $pc register in MIPS is set to int but not code_ptr.
> And according to the discussion in
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2013-06/msg00020.html, the type cannot be
> changed.

Hmm, that's not what I get from this branch of the discussion:

 https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2013-06/msg00021.html

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Pedro Alves