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Re: Warning: something weird with void* types.
Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> --On Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:44 PM -0400 Fernando Nasser
> <fnasser@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > I can't believe nobody has anything to say about this...
>
> Well, a quick looksie shows the only thing that could be causing this that
> i immediately see is in stabsread.c
>
> You are using STABS, I assume, right?
>
> Can you verify it doesn't occur with DWARF2, so I can generate a fix for
> the problem, or if it does occur with DWARF2, look elsewhere?
>
Dan,
I am currently on a trip and with very limited access to my stuff and I
will only be back Tuesday.
But I reproduced this problem on Linux debugging GDB with itself.
Cheers,
Fernando
> >
> >
> > Fernando Nasser wrote:
> >>
> >> FYI, we are having to make a change in Insight to cope with a funny
> >> thing that recently appeared in GDB.
> >>
> >> The target type of a void* does not have the type name set to "void" any
> >> longer.
> >>
> >> (gdb) p *type
> >> $3 = {code = TYPE_CODE_PTR, name = 0x0, tag_name = 0x0, length = 4,
> >> upper_bound_type = 0, lower_bound_type = 0, objfile = 0x854e998,
> >> target_type = 0x8bcd5d8, pointer_type = 0x0, reference_type = 0x0,
> >> cv_type = 0x8bcd61c, flags = 1, nfields = 0, fields = 0x0,
> >> vptr_basetype = 0x0, vptr_fieldno = -1, type_specific = {arg_types =
> >> 0x0,
> >> cplus_stuff = 0x0}}
> >> (gdb) p *target
> >> $4 = {code = TYPE_CODE_VOID, name = 0x0, tag_name = 0x0, length = 1,
> >> upper_bound_type = 0, lower_bound_type = 0, objfile = 0x854e998,
> >> target_type = 0x0, pointer_type = 0x8bcd61c, reference_type = 0x0,
> >> cv_type = 0x8bcd5d8, flags = 0, nfields = 0, fields = 0x0,
> >> vptr_basetype = 0x0, vptr_fieldno = -1, type_specific = {arg_types =
> >> 0x0,
> >> cplus_stuff = 0x0}}
> >>
> >> As you see, TYPE_CODE_VOID does not have a name anymore, at least when
> >> it is the target of a (void *) type..
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Fernando Nasser
> > Red Hat Canada Ltd. E-Mail: fnasser@redhat.com
> > 2323 Yonge Street, Suite #300
> > Toronto, Ontario M4P 2C9
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Fernando Nasser
Red Hat Canada Ltd.