From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30197 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2009 15:47:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 30186 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Sep 2009 15:47:00 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:46:54 +0000 Received: from int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.16]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n84FkicI031530; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:46:44 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx03.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n84Fki19011015; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:46:44 -0400 Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n84Fkgdf011151; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 11:46:43 -0400 Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6C762378242; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 09:46:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Tom Tromey To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: freindlyuser@hushmail.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: 64bit pointer References: <20090903122141.4BD7DB8043@smtp.hushmail.com> <20090903123325.GA24453@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:47:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20090903123325.GA24453@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's message of "Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:33:25 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-09/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kratochvil 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