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Re: Formatting of function pointer value

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: Vladimir Prus <ghost at cs dot msu dot su>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:03:07 -0400
Subject: Re: Formatting of function pointer value
References: <dalbrd$tn0$1@sea.gmane.org> <dalep8$5ek$1@sea.gmane.org> <20050708135830.GC17089@nevyn.them.org> <dat0lm$kuh$4@sea.gmane.org> <jey88d91w0.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:34:55AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> writes:
> 
> > I'm sorry, I don't understand this. Is human user supposed to know that '{'
> > starts a function? What harm will it make if parenthesis are used in both
> > cases?
> 
> `{TYPE} ADDR' is a special syntax for expressions in gdb and is actually a
> shorthand for `*(TYPE *) ADDR'.

Woah... and yes, it's in the manual.  Thanks, Andreas; I've never seen
that syntax before!

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

References:
- Formatting of function pointer value
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: Formatting of function pointer value
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: Formatting of function pointer value
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: Formatting of function pointer value
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: Formatting of function pointer value
  - From: Andreas Schwab

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