Re: [ob] unbreak MI

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > > Generally, with a NULL pointer, or and address that can't be dereferenced,
 > > MI prints out the value field as value="".
 > > 
 > > What is the problem in this case?  Why isn't the right fix to add a
 > > check_typedef somewhere?
 > 
 > check_typedef? The original problem was that check_typedef was getting
 > called on NULL pointer, so adding more check_typedef calls won't help.
 > Probably:
 > 
 >         if (!gdb_type)
 >                 ui_out_field_string (uiout, "value", "");
 >         else if (mi_print_value_p (gdb_type, print_values))
 >                 ui_out_field_string (uiout, "value", varobj_get_value (var));
 > 
 > is the right logic?

It's probably the right logic, but it seems to cure the symptom rather than the
cause.  What I mean't, I guess, was where/how does check_typedef is get passed
a NULL pointer?  And can't that call be conditioned (i.e. "add a *check* to
check_typedef") , e.g., something like:

if (!gdb_type)
   check_typedef (gdb_type)

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob