Bug 10660 - the result of a cast has the wrong type
Summary: the result of a cast has the wrong type
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: gdb
Classification: Unclassified
Component: exp (show other bugs)
Version: 6.8
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: 6.8
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Reported: 2009-09-18 19:20 UTC by Tom Tromey
Modified: 2009-09-18 20:01 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Tromey 2009-09-18 19:20:28 UTC 
value_cast yields a result whose type is the result of calling
check_typedef on the requested type.  This means that casting will
strip typedefs.

This yields the wrong answer for cases where the type name matters,
namely python-based pretty-printing, and printing of wchar_t.