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[PATCH v3 04/13] vla: enable sizeof operator for indirection
- From: Sanimir Agovic <sanimir dot agovic at intel dot com>
- To: tromey at redhat dot com, palves at redhat dot com, xdje42 at gmail dot com
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, keven dot boell at intel dot com
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 15:19:35 +0100
- Subject: [PATCH v3 04/13] vla: enable sizeof operator for indirection
- Authentication-results: sourceware.org; auth=none
- References: <1386166785-28037-1-git-send-email-sanimir dot agovic at intel dot com>
This patch enables the sizeof operator for indirections:
1| void foo (size_t n) {
2| int vla[n];
3| int *vla_ptr = &vla;
4| }
(gdb) p sizeof(*vla_ptr)
yields N.
2013-10-18 Sanimir Agovic <sanimir.agovic@intel.com>
Keven Boell <keven.boell@intel.com>
* eval.c (evaluate_subexp_for_sizeof): Create a indirect value and
retrieve the dynamic type size.
Change-Id: I3dbe85ebbc87ca93115a1952316b6436f750a16d
Signed-off-by: Sanimir Agovic <sanimir.agovic@intel.com>
---
gdb/eval.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gdb/eval.c b/gdb/eval.c
index a81e789..b3e45ca 100644
--- a/gdb/eval.c
+++ b/gdb/eval.c
@@ -3027,6 +3027,8 @@ evaluate_subexp_for_sizeof (struct expression *exp, int *pos)
&& TYPE_CODE (type) != TYPE_CODE_ARRAY)
error (_("Attempt to take contents of a non-pointer value."));
type = check_typedef (TYPE_TARGET_TYPE (type));
+ if (is_dynamic_type (type))
+ type = value_type (value_ind (val));
return value_from_longest (size_type, (LONGEST) TYPE_LENGTH (type));
case UNOP_MEMVAL:
--
1.8.3.1