Re: Formatting of function pointer value

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-08T13:59:12Z

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:50:48PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>
>
> > the value of *p3 is printed like this:
> >
> > (gdb) print *p3
> > $1 = {int (int)} 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>
>
> Even more strange is this:
>
> (gdb) print p3
> $2 = (int (*)(int)) 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>
> (gdb) print *p3
> $3 = {int (int)} 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>
>
> Why does formatting of the type different in the second case, and uses
> braces instead of parenthesis?

One is a pointer to function, the other is a function.

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