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Re: 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: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:13:14 -0500
- Subject: Re: 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
>> ...
- was there ever a conclusion on this item, it certainly seems helpful?