From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Berlin To: Fernando Nasser , gdb@sources.redhat.com, Andrew Cagney , Chris Faylor Subject: Re: Warning: something weird with void* types. Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 08:21:00 -0000 Message-id: <160383.989499610@dynamic-addr-83-177.resnet.rochester.edu> References: <3AF6D9F3.ADD7A779@redhat.com> <3AFAC56E.9AF1DD27@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00272.html --On Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:44 PM -0400 Fernando Nasser wrote: > I can't believe nobody has anything to say about this... Well, a quick looksie shows the only thing that could be causing this that i immediately see is in stabsread.c You are using STABS, I assume, right? Can you verify it doesn't occur with DWARF2, so I can generate a fix for the problem, or if it does occur with DWARF2, look elsewhere? > > > 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