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Re: Formatting of function pointer value

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:34:55AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:
> 
> > I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Is human user supposed to know that '{'
> > starts a function? What harm will it make if parenthesis are used in both
> > cases?
> 
> `{TYPE} ADDR' is a special syntax for expressions in gdb and is actually a
> shorthand for `*(TYPE *) ADDR'.

Woah... and yes, it's in the manual.  Thanks, Andreas; I've never seen
that syntax before!

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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