From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@cygnus.com>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Andrew Cagney <cagney@cygnus.com>, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Warning: something weird with void* types.
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:00:00 -0000
Message-id: <15098.51527.872418.987951@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
References: <3AF6D9F3.ADD7A779@redhat.com> <3AFAC56E.9AF1DD27@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00225.html

Fernando Nasser writes:
 > I can't believe nobody has anything to say about this...

Can you file a PR? So we don't forget about this.

Elena

 > 
 > 
 > Fernando Nasser wrote:
 > > 
 > > FYI, we are having to make a change in Insight to cope with a funny
 > > thing that recently appeared in GDB.
 > > 
 > > The target type of a void* does not have the type name set to "void" any
 > > longer.
 > > 
 > > (gdb) p *type
 > > $3 = {code = TYPE_CODE_PTR, name = 0x0, tag_name = 0x0, length = 4,
 > >   upper_bound_type = 0, lower_bound_type = 0, objfile = 0x854e998,
 > >   target_type = 0x8bcd5d8, pointer_type = 0x0, reference_type = 0x0,
 > >   cv_type = 0x8bcd61c, flags = 1, nfields = 0, fields = 0x0,
 > >   vptr_basetype = 0x0, vptr_fieldno = -1, type_specific = {arg_types =
 > > 0x0,
 > >     cplus_stuff = 0x0}}
 > > (gdb) p *target
 > > $4 = {code = TYPE_CODE_VOID, name = 0x0, tag_name = 0x0, length = 1,
 > >   upper_bound_type = 0, lower_bound_type = 0, objfile = 0x854e998,
 > >   target_type = 0x0, pointer_type = 0x8bcd61c, reference_type = 0x0,
 > >   cv_type = 0x8bcd5d8, flags = 0, nfields = 0, fields = 0x0,
 > >   vptr_basetype = 0x0, vptr_fieldno = -1, type_specific = {arg_types =
 > > 0x0,
 > >     cplus_stuff = 0x0}}
 > > 
 > > As you see, TYPE_CODE_VOID does not have a name anymore, at least when
 > > it is the target of a (void *) type..
 > > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Fernando Nasser
 > Red Hat Canada Ltd.                     E-Mail:  fnasser@redhat.com
 > 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300
 > Toronto, Ontario   M4P 2C9
 >