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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Cc: dje@google.com (Doug Evans), gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix crash of convenience vars with typedefs.
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In-Reply-To: <200908171308.n7HD8dwb023540@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com> 	(Ulrich Weigand's message of "Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:08:39 +0200 (CEST)")
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>>>>> "Ulrich" == Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> writes:

Ulrich> Shouldn't the result of value_of_internalvar still have the original
Ulrich> typedef name instead of the type it resolves to?

This would be nice -- the wide character code relies on type names now,
for instance -- but most of gdb already eagerly strips typedefs.  E.g.,
look at value_cast, where the resulting value is not actually of the
type you pass in, but rather the type after stripping typedefs.

Tom