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Re: container_of equivalent in gdb-python script

>>>>> "Jan" == Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> writes:

Daniel> It's typical to do this the same way folks do in C: Create a null
Daniel> pointer of the right type.

Jan> You can't do that with the current upstream python interface, but the
Jan> parse_and_eval solves this nicely.

Actually, for constants you can:

(gdb) python print gdb.Value(0)
0
(gdb) python print type(gdb.Value(0))
<type 'gdb.Value'>
(gdb) python print gdb.Value(0).cast(gdb.lookup_type('char').pointer())
0x0

Whoops, this seems to be undocumented.

Tom
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