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RFC: Print the type of a C value in one more case
- From: Paul Schlie <schlie at comcast dot net>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: <gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:56:53 -0500
- Subject: RFC: Print the type of a C value in one more case
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> This is something that constantly bugs me when debugging GCC. GCC has
> typedefs for "tree" and "rtx" which are both pointers to structs. When
> you print either, you just get "$1 = 0xbf000100" without any indication
> of the type of the variable; but normally GDB prints types for pointers.
> This comes from a missing check_typedef in c_value_print.
>
> There were a couple of ways to fix it; I chose to print the typedef rather
> than what the typedef pointed to. The only difference in the testsuite is
> in one objc test, which perfectly illustrates the desired change:
>
> -$1 = 0x0
> +$1 = (id) 0x0
> ...
Nice. Certainly more informative than an the present naked value.