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From: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
To: 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 09:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AFAC56E.9AF1DD27@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3AF6D9F3.ADD7A779@redhat.com>

I can't believe nobody has anything to say about this...


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


  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-10  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-07 10:25 Fernando Nasser
2001-05-10  9:46 ` Fernando Nasser [this message]
2001-05-10 10:00   ` Elena Zannoni
2001-05-16  8:21   ` Daniel Berlin
2001-05-18 10:30     ` Fernando Nasser

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