From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fernando Nasser To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Andrew Cagney , Chris Faylor Subject: Re: Warning: something weird with void* types. Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:46:00 -0000 Message-id: <3AFAC56E.9AF1DD27@redhat.com> References: <3AF6D9F3.ADD7A779@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00224.html 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