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Re: Problem with virtual function pointers
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:53:46 -0500
- Subject: Re: Problem with virtual function pointers
- References: <20030327142412.GK23762@cygbert.vinschen.de>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 03:24:12PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm just investigating a problem which XStormy16 gets in
> gdb.c++/printmethod.exp:
>
> print theA->virt^M
> $1 = invalid pointer to member function^M
> FAIL: gdb.c++/printmethod.exp: print virtual method.
>
> It turned out that the error happens in xstormy16_pointer_to_address().
> This function converts an address to a jump table entry into a pointer
> to the actual function. To do this, it calls a conversion routine,
> which is only called if the following condition applies:
>
>
> enum type_code target = TYPE_CODE (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type));
>
> if (target == TYPE_CODE_FUNC || target == TYPE_CODE_METHOD)
> convert();
>
> Surprisingly (at least for me) this fails for the above case. Looking
> into type, I found that type is TYPE_CODE_PTR which is correct, but
> target_type is TYPE_CODE_VOID! Sure, the above virtual method is of
> type void but is that really ok? Shouldn't that be
>
> type: TYPE_CODE_PTR
> type->target_type: TYPE_CODE_METHOD
> type->target_type->target_type: TYPE_CODE_VOID
>
> ?
Could you give me a backtrace?
> Does somebody know why that happens? Is that just a bug in gdb? Or
> could that be related to incorrect debug info from gcc?
I believe this has to do with the type info emitted for virtual
function tables, but I need to see the backtrace to confirm. If so I'm
not sure whether it's really a bug in GCC or GDB...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer