Re: Formatting of function pointer value

Andreas Schwab
2005-07-11T08:35:18Z

Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:

> I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Is human user supposed to know that '{'
> starts a function? What harm will it make if parenthesis are used in both
> cases?

`{TYPE} ADDR' is a special syntax for expressions in gdb and is actually a
shorthand for `*(TYPE *) ADDR'.

Andreas.

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