[Bug exp/12281] New: Incorrect interpretation of returned point in64 bit platform

["youngtsai at yahoo dot com.tw" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12281

           Summary: Incorrect interpretation of returned point in 64 bit
                    platform
           Product: gdb
           Version: unknown
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: exp
        AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
        ReportedBy: youngtsai@yahoo.com.tw


Environment
   OS : 
   Linux spx919 2.6.9-67.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 7 13:56:44 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64
x86_64 GNU/Linux
   g++ version:
     Using built-in specs.
    Target: x86_64-redhat-linux
    Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
--infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix
--enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit
--disable-libunwind-exceptions --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.4.3
--enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95
--enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi
--with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-1.4.2.0/jre --with-cpu=generic
--host=x86_64-redhat-linux
    Thread model: posix
    gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)
   gdb version:
    GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.153.el4rh)

Problem description -
  Calling the funtion in gdb in 64 bit platform , the returned pointer will be
interpreted as 4 bytes (more like integer) if the program is not compiled with
-g. Following list the reproduced steps.

Reproduced steps -

1. g++ test.C  (the source file is as following)
2. gdb a.out


(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x4005d4
(gdb) run
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

Breakpoint 1, 0x00000000004005d4 in main ()
(gdb) print (char *)func2()
$1 = 0xffffffff9558c010 <Address 0xffffffff9558c010 out of bounds>
(gdb) print sizeof(func2())
$2 = 4



test.C
====================================================
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

char *func1()
{
   static char str1[100]="abcde";
   return str1;
}

char *func2()
{
   char *str = new char[10000000000];
   strcpy(str,"abc");
   return str;
}

main()
{
   func1();
   func2();
}

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