RFA: fix GDB casts when pointers are not addresses
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@cygnus.com
Thu Jul 5 13:09:00 GMT 2001
> Sure.
>
> $ cat pointer2.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> main ()
> {
> printf ("0x%x\n", (int) &main);
> }
> $ $CMitsuB/d10v-elf-gcc -g pointer2.c -o pointer2
> $ $CMitsuB/d10v-elf-run pointer2
> 0x5017
> $ $DD10v/gdb/gdb pointer2
> GNU gdb 2001-07-02-cvs (MI_OUT)
> Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
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> This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=d10v-elf"...
> (gdb) print (int) &main
> $1 = 16476
> (gdb) p/x (int) &main
> $2 = 0x405c
Is this before or after all the changes? My understanding of what you
were proposing was that it would output the same as for GCC vis:
$2 = 0x5017
> Sure. The patch includes a comment which is supposed to set this
> straight. What is it missing?
I was thinking more of doc/gdb.texinfo.
Andrew
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