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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: freindlyuser@hushmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: 64bit pointer
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31vmmd865.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090903123325.GA24453@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan 	Kratochvil's message of "Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:33:25 +0200")

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> writes:

Jan> Yes.  Until GDB forbids dereferencing numeric arguments as `int *'
Jan> which IMHO is more confusing than convenient.  [Would a patch be
Jan> approved?]

This behavior does seem strange to me.

GDB as a project seems to be somewhat conservative about changing things
like this, though.  I don't think I could predict whether anybody would
object, you pretty much have to submit a patch and see who speaks up.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-03 12:21 freindlyuser
2009-09-03 12:33 ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-09-04 15:47   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2009-09-03 13:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-09-03 13:27 freindlyuser

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