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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:08:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Doc]tracepoint: change *$esp@300 to *(unsigned char *)$esp@300
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> 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?