Trivial fix in value_sub
Jim Blandy
jimb@redhat.com
Wed Apr 3 19:55:00 GMT 2002
Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com> writes:
> So... I don't think you should keep the size at 0. This seems like
> gdb is just silently ignoring the " - x" part of what they typed, and
> you should always be explicit about what you have done. But if you
> think an error is more appropriate, I am fine with that...
Oh, no, I didn't mean to suggest that zero was the right size to use;
I agree with you completely that that would be pretty confusing.
Your story is pretty amazing --- I would never have guessed that
people actually *use* the sizeof (struct incomplete) == 1 behavior! I
think it is much more common for people to be unaware that the type is
incomplete; if this hunch is correct, then the behavior your toolbox
folks love will be very confusing. I think an error for arithmetic on
any incomplete type other than (void *) is the right thing.
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