From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Nikolay.Molchanov@Sun.COM, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Can I use -data-evaluate-expression to evaluate sin(4.1)?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17800.18177.281105.992978@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061219163224.GA28686@nevyn.them.org>
> > By default (without debuginfo as Frederic says) it assumes sin takes an
> > integer argument and returns an value (I think).
>
> What does "ptype sin" say?
(gdb) whatis sin
type = <text variable, no debug info>
(gdb) ptype sin
type = int ()
> I'd have expected GDB to pick up the type
> from the debug info in that example.
If the executable knows what kind of function sin is, then you would think that
GDB should be able to infer it from the executable. ISTR this has come up
before (just with "print") but that you expressed no surprise then.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-19 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-19 5:55 Nikolay Molchanov
2006-12-19 7:44 ` Frederic RISS
2006-12-19 8:28 ` Nick Roberts
2006-12-19 16:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-19 20:14 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2006-12-20 2:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-12-19 17:02 ` Nikolay Molchanov
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