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Re: Formatting of function pointer value

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:50:48PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > the value of *p3 is printed like this:
>> > 
>> >    (gdb) print *p3
>> >    $1 = {int (int)} 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>
>> 
>> Even more strange is this:
>> 
>>    (gdb) print p3
>>    $2 = (int (*)(int)) 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>
>>    (gdb) print *p3
>>    $3 = {int (int)} 0xb7ee6e9c <__DTOR_END__+4>
>> 
>> Why does formatting of the type different in the second case, and uses
>> braces instead of parenthesis?
> 
> One is a pointer to function, the other is a function.

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?

- Volodya
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