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Re: RFC: Print the type of a C value in one more case
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:13:14AM -0500, Paul Schlie wrote:
> >> 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?
I never got around to committing it. Since no one disliked it, I've
checked this in now.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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