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Re: [PATCH] Fix print of value type in a corner case of finish


It there a way to add a test?

Also please use "const char *" for type_name, so C++
doesn't complain.  :-)

Thanks,
Pedro Alves

On 02/26/2015 01:25 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
> When doing finish in a function, if gdb fails to return a value, gdb
> also fails at printing the value type if this type is a struct.
> 
> For example :
> 
> (gdb) fin
> ....
> Value returned has type: . Cannot determine contents
> 
> This patch fixes this by calling type_to_string to print the type
> so that we can support these types.
> 
> This patch returns the following example output :
> 
> (gdb) fin
> ....
> Value returned has type: struct test. Cannot determine contents
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 	* gdb/infcmd.c (print_return_value): use type_to_string to print type.
> ---
>  gdb/infcmd.c |    8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/infcmd.c b/gdb/infcmd.c
> index 9a1fb8d..3737b8f 100644
> --- a/gdb/infcmd.c
> +++ b/gdb/infcmd.c
> @@ -1607,10 +1607,16 @@ print_return_value (struct value *function, struct type *value_type)
>      }
>    else
>      {
> +      struct cleanup *oldchain;
> +      char *type_name;
> +
> +      type_name = type_to_string (value_type);
> +      oldchain = make_cleanup (xfree, type_name);
>        ui_out_text (uiout, "Value returned has type: ");
> -      ui_out_field_string (uiout, "return-type", TYPE_NAME (value_type));
> +      ui_out_field_string (uiout, "return-type", type_name);
>        ui_out_text (uiout, ".");
>        ui_out_text (uiout, " Cannot determine contents\n");
> +      do_cleanups (oldchain);
>      }
>  }
>  
> 


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